>>7146795Thanks man, I just got lucky with most of it. I don't even work for MIT directly, I'm through the military, we use Haystack to keep track of space debris.
Honestly 90% of the time it's sitting in a cubicle, staring at numbers on a screen changing incrementally with nothing interesting at all. But knowing that the numbers are *up there* is what makes it worthwhile. And also the drive to work past the radar dishes still blows me away a few years in.
What trade are you in? There are a bunch of people who work with us who just manufacture the parts we need. The head of the workshop doesn't know a lick of radio astronomy, he was an auto repairman before he joined up. There might be a place for you in the field if you can find it.
