Le New Job

I'm in a department called utilities. My official title is "fuel technician." It sounds super bad ass, like I'm really smart. But it's pretty chill. Basically I drive a front loader around and move coal from huge piles and dump it into a steel grate in the floor. From there, it lands in this giant inverted pyramid, where it's slowly dispersed onto a conveyor belt. It goes all the way up that long blue tube and is used to fuel the rest of the mill. It's actually really interesting. This is what I get to drive everyday :) But a much bigger version.

And this is the actual mill:

I work in the building on the bottom right of the picture. The Mississippi river is right behind the mill. Maybe this is boring....but it's pretty sweet to look at. This is the machine my uncle owns:

It's a lot cleaner than I expected. I'm finally done with training, and get to start the actual job on Monday!