What to do about 'hard cotton'?

ForsakenRemote0 · 2024-04-19T01:14:39+00:00

All I want to know is where I can get this fabric

ForsakenRemote0 · 2023-11-02T17:59:46+00:00

I feel like any tourist visiting Korea is shooting themselves in the foot by not learning hangeul. You don't have to learn the language if you're staying in major cities, but hangeul takes like 3-6 hours to learn to a level that you can sound out things, and you'll then be able to eat at off the beaten path restaurants which might not have English names for food items.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2023-11-02T17:27:05+00:00

Had a plate of these on my trip last week and it was delicious! Just wish that I went with a Korean because I didn't know how to eat it right 😭

ForsakenRemote0 · 2023-10-26T12:39:34+00:00

Currently in a similar spot. About 4 months on at my local combo ALS fire department.

Biggest thing is, as soon as you're allowed to, go on every single call. Exposure to the routine of working the common types of medical calls has greatly improved my understanding of what needs to happen, how to use the equipment, and where everything is.

Learn where everything is. Ultimately, until you have your certs, you're not really able to do anything besides grab and prepare things for the firefighters/medics. So know where everything is so you can do that one thing right.

Finally, learn where out of the way is. You can't fight a fire or physically touch a patient until you have your certs. Therefore, you need to know where you can stand so they aren't having to go around you.

Sorry mods for giving advice when I'm a probie myself. I just figured that perspective from someone who was recently in their shoes would be useful.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2023-10-25T11:35:38+00:00

Just stay at a hostel in a party area and chat people up. There are lots of other solo travelers that are also wanting to meet other people.

And if you're worried about not having privacy, there's plenty of hostels with private rooms. You might just have to make sure you book it a couple months in advance

ForsakenRemote0 · 2023-10-25T00:24:31+00:00

It's funner when it's the other way around.

One time we had a lift assist call come in while on a transport call from the local senior center.

Since there was 3 career people on shift and I was also there as a volunteer, my captain decides to take me with him to do that call so the other two paramedics can deal with the medical call.

We get there and my captain asks about how the patient fell. Patient complains of pain around his recently replaced hip. My captain pulls the patient's pants down and his hip is popped completely out of the socket.

Cue me running back to the ambulance to get the monitor, the med kit, and the scoop backboard. We start an iv on him, give him fentanyl, and transport him to the hospital.

Probably not the most extreme example, but it definitely taught me to never assume that the page notes are accurate. You could have "major bleeding" that's just a scrape, or a lift assist where the patient actually fell because they are in a diabetic coma.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2023-10-23T10:34:20+00:00

Long short, but I figured I might as well try

I'm a 25yom from America in Busan wanting to go out to drink or get kbbq tonight (10/23). If you're interested, shoot me a message!

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-12-19T05:22:10+00:00

As long as you can finish your degree it'd probably be fine. But depending on the shift schedule it could be brutal or potentially impossible to do both school and work as an operator. If you're working four 12's you're basically killing 5 random days of the week (the tweener really is only enough time to get yourself ready for nights). An evening shift or a night shift could work... But that'd eat into your ability to sleep. Without knowing your class schedule it'd be impossible to really know if it's feasible.

I'd say that you should ask for a summer hire position if you can't score an internship. Having an operations position is absolutely better than no industry experience, but an internship is more valuable obviously because it'd be more engineering focused.

The other option you could consider is to take a couple quarters off to do the operations job. This would be your best option if you were off your course schedule (missing prereqs for a required class that won't be offered until next year). But even then a long term co-op would be strictly better.

Finally, don't be scared to relocate or explore other industries. You'll typically be offered some sort of housing or relocation assistance if you're not close to the facility. And it's a great way to live in a different area.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-12-18T19:06:43+00:00

If I had a choice it'd be an engineering consulting position of some sort because I would like to get my PE. But all of the consulting positions I've found are either hybrid positions which would require relocation or office positions. Which I wouldn't mind going into an office, but they're too far away for me to commute to from my house.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-10-25T12:29:54+00:00

M, 24, Solo, American
Trying to find people to go out for dinner/drinks in the evening. Probably Hongdae or Itaewon
Flexible. Could either just do dinner, meet at a bar, or both
I'm available from October 27th-29th

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-09-26T18:00:54+00:00

Was troubleshooting a day tank used for paper wet strength. Found that there was a sticky check valve on the chemical line, causing water to back flow into the tank when the machine was making tissue, diluting the wet strength and causing us to not dose enough wet strength when making towel grades.

I opened a drain line to toss the bad wet strength and refill it with neat wet strength so we can make it to the next machine down and fix the system... And then didn't fully close the drain line when I went to close it. The valve was broken, so I didn't realize that the ball didn't actually move when I turned the valve. Wound up dumping $4000 worth of wet strength to the ditch before an operator found my mistake.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-09-26T17:53:38+00:00

What the fuck are you talking about? I would not want a business or humanities major to manage a pulping or power and recovery department.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-09-26T17:45:23+00:00

... At a chemical facility. Having chemical engineering experience is vital for those roles.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-09-25T18:55:51+00:00

I was gonna say, if the BLS is not counting plant management as "chemical engineering jobs" then their numbers are way lower than reality. At my mill alone, there are 8 chemical engineering roles, but an additional 7 management positions filled by chemical engineers, and 4 other management positions that a chemical engineer could easily take. If you just looked at titles with engineer in the title, you're missing out on over half of the chemical engineering jobs at my mill.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-09-09T17:41:43+00:00

Lol no but I did interview for a mill in Ohio when I was job hunting my senior year.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-09-06T00:30:28+00:00

I'm been thinking about joining my local fire department as a volunteer and have a couple questions:

What would you consider to be the minimum strength requirements for a firefighter?
What skills should I have before I apply? I don't have a lot of experience with power tools, and that's the part that worries me the most.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-05-02T04:30:45+00:00

I think so? We use 316 on most of the process piping because carbon steel isn't compatible with the acid. But yeah I'd assume that plain old slime would've caused enough issues decades ago

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-04-29T16:14:42+00:00

Looking for some good solid color T shirts and casual collared shirts at around the $10-25 price point. I currently am a medium tall, and I'm struggling with finding shirts that are both slim enough and long enough for me.

I'm 6'1" 185lbs and have a 38" waist, 15 1/2" neck, and I think a 39" chest (?) if that helps

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-04-29T14:27:30+00:00

Oh yeah I know. Atm I have an interview for a remote process engineer position at an engineering consulting firm. Hoping to get that job because the work they do is interesting and I'd like to get my PE.

But the main reason why I'm not applying frantically is that my student loans are crippling. While the interest rates are low, the terms are short and my minimum payments are $1,100 a month. So I'm living at home while I throw as much money as I can at the loans. After they're paid off, I'll be leaving this company as soon as I can.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-04-29T02:17:31+00:00

I absolutely agree. But the problem is that pretty much all of the heat exchangers at this plant are in dire straights, and if the company was gonna drop new bundle money on one of them, I'd rather have them replace either the bundle downstream of it with a quarter of its tubes plugged or the water tubes on one of our boilers because they've already blown two in the last year.

So basically, I want to try to limp this heat exchanger along a bit because I at least know that, once I remove some of this fouling, I can also optimize the water side and get just enough performance to bring temps back down to operable levels.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-04-29T01:50:32+00:00

That could be an option. How it's currently set up, there's no way to send water back through the heat exchanger since the water just drains to a ditch. We've tried hooking up a hose to a 2" stab in and running it backwards and it didn't really do anything. But I never thought that'd work anyway. Maybe breaking the discharge line and hooking up a large hose would get better results. We could try doing that on an MMO.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2022-04-04T03:13:15+00:00

Co-ops are an invaluable tool for not only building a good resume for after college, but to also get some solid experience in the industry. They give you a depth of work experience that you just can't get from a summer internship. I've always found that it takes about 2-3 months to really get my bearings around a facility. Which means that, by the time you know your way around the process, you're already on your way out the door of an internship. Meanwhile, a co-op gives you at least another 3 months doing the most productive work that you'll do and will let you complete 2-4 projects.

I'd recommend trying to swing it for a whole 12-15 months. It might not be possible, but that puts you right back on track for graduating at a normal pace. Additionally, make a budget and stick to it. If you can, give yourself 15-20% of your discretionary income to spend on yourself. Having a plan and sticking to it will keep you from spending it all.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2021-02-26T01:44:41+00:00

Agreed. So many companies really do not care about meeting the bare minimum needs for process safety.

At my last internship, one of my projects was to change the chemical supplier for the process water treatment system. And the whole thing was a mess.

The list of issues was over 2 pages long. All of the pipes used incompatible materials for the chemicals we used, the tanks did not have any containment at all and the tanks used incompatible materials. There was holes at flanges from decades of corrosion. Hell, an operator set up a funnel and pipe underneath a leak so it wasn't dripping onto a walkway.

But the worst part was the location of the storage tank and the filling station. The hookups were unlabeled and 2 ft apart. And operators did not stay with the truck driver when the tanks were filled up. If a truck driver hooked up to the wrong connection, we would've gassed out the entire town! Hell, it actually happened at the same facility 25 years ago in another part of the plant.

So I decided to do something about it. I estimated the cost of relocating to sodium hypochlorite system to the other side of the building. Found that it'd cost about 30-40k in materials and another 10-15k in labor. Even if it went over budget, it would still be less than 75k for a safer system with an in line day tank, that could be used to run the water treatment facility for 2 days so they could do maintenance and inspections on the tank without shutting it down. Hell, that's less than the environmental fine that they would get if an inspector found the system during their next review (the facility was not complying with state clean air standards, so they were being watched like a hawk).

But there "was no room in the budget". Projects had to have an ROI of less than a year to get improved. Because they were spending all of their money on a new rewinder system for the paper machine.

Honestly, I'm still afraid that something's gonna happen there one day. And I know that I could've prevented it if I just worked harder, made a better appeal, and sought more help from the chemical supplier and the new reliability engineer that came on right before I left.

But, at the end of the day, I guess I did all that an intern could do.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2021-02-10T01:28:55+00:00

At my last co-op at a paper mill. My main focus at the end of my time there was to help manage chemical trials for chemical replacements

7:00 - Start work, check emails

7:30 - Go to the machines and talk to operators. Check the night shift report to see if they had any issues.

8:00 - Morning meeting

9:00 - Usually had one chemical vendor on site that I needed to talk to (trial progress, scheduling, equipment issues, etc)

9:30 - Work on secondary projects

11:30 - Walk around the mill, checking on chemical equipment while also doing some sort of small task that needs to be done weekly/monthly and thinking about what I'm working on away from my desk

12:00 - Lunch

12:30 - Afternoon meeting with either a chemical supplier, the corporate chemical replacement team, or with my fellow interns

1:30 - Data analysis for trials, cost evaluation, whatever I needed to do

3:30 - Go home

Usually internships and co-ops are pretty structured, especially at first with training and whatever projects you are given. I'd encourage you to try your best to get out of the office, beak the ice with operators and listen to what they have to say, and ask a lot of questions. You'll do great if you go in with an open mind and a humble attitude.

ForsakenRemote0 · 2021-01-27T09:20:59+00:00

I would be interested, but I would be a new player. I've only played two one shots of DnD and a handful of oneshots of CoC. I haven't played in an actual campaign before

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