IHAVETHEBESTJOBINTHEWHOLEWIDEWORLD

I really love it. I'll explain it, but it sounds really boring. Sorry. I'm just ecstatic about it :)

So I got there and clocked in at 5:40 this morning. My trainer got there about five minutes later. He told me and the other lady, Paula, what we would be doing. Starting out with absolutely nothing. Until 7:15. :) Then we go and pull ash. Basically there's these giant containers, three of them, that contain ash. You take a giant, 40 pound steel rake and rake it towards you. It gets sucked up into a vacuum and taken to the ash silo. That takes about 2 hours. Then we chill for a while longer. After that we go out to the south building and fill these giant things called grizzlies. We drive the front loader around and fill the grizzlies up with coal.

Ha it sounds like I work in a coal mine. You get a little dirty, but it's super entertaining. After you fill the grizzlies, it's lunch time. So we take an hour lunch, and then go underneath the mill and clean up.

We basically sweep whatever fell off the conveyor belt and make sure there's no build up in a bunch of random hatches. We scrape shiz off and climb around on railings. It's nice :) After that we take some environmental numbers from a bunch of different gauges, and write them in the environmental book.

Then we drive the front loader again, and pile up all the piles of coal that have come in. So there's room for more.

Then we take another break. After that we straighten up and head back to the control room, where we do nothing until the shift is over.

It's a 12 hour shift, but it's not nearly that much work. He told us we could bring a book and just chill in the south building. It's really nice. I love it :)