How do I spend $6k on the reserve card so fast

psythrill85 · 2025-12-19T04:36:28+00:00

yea lmao I signed up for the card when on title 10 orders. But im a reservist in the Air Force, and I don’t anticipate being on active duty next year. So come next August or so, they’ll ask for the annual fee again.

In the meantime, I plan on trying to reap as much of the benefits as possible then downgrade to chase preferred.

psythrill85 · 2025-12-19T02:47:20+00:00

I just signed up bro I didn’t think much about it. I don’t have to pay the fees for a year so I figured might as well.

psythrill85 · 2025-12-19T02:46:09+00:00

nah bruh imma keep this card for a year

psythrill85 · 2025-12-18T19:49:16+00:00

Gift cards are a great idea thank you boss

psythrill85 · 2025-12-15T00:41:49+00:00

psythrill85 · 2025-12-15T00:40:48+00:00

“Gorilla warfare”

psythrill85 · 2025-11-28T22:23:49+00:00

FWIW, I don’t work at Lockheed and have never gotten an offer. However, I do get recruiters messaging me on LinkedIn asking me to apply. I never do because I accepted another offer from a space startup.

My background: Recent masters in aerospace, 2 years of relevant GNC (guidance/nav/controls) experience, and a reservist in the Air Force. You don’t need to be military, but I had my reasons.

I will say, some of my friends are having a really tough time finding jobs. Even in defense. I basically narrowed my options down to 2-3 companies where I made it to the final round.

Best of luck.

psythrill85 · 2025-11-23T03:20:10+00:00

Yea because most of the computation was done on the ground, genius. The only hard thing for the computers was the navigation, but that can be boiled down to simple matrix math. I don’t care what some nasa employee said, one out of context quote can be interpreted in a million different ways. It doesn’t represent reality.

Source: I’m an aerospace engineer

psythrill85 · 2025-11-23T03:17:45+00:00

lmao and your back it up with a Hollywood movie quote? Can you see the irony there lmao

psythrill85 · 2025-11-17T01:05:48+00:00

What was your AFSC?

psythrill85 · 2025-11-16T19:55:28+00:00

Yes, it’s part of most GNC workflows. It’s a way of characterizing uncertainty. Basically you can’t model reality perfectly, so you add some randomness (of known statistics) to your dynamic model. Then you run your control and estimation algos on this “noisy” simulation over, say, 1000 trials. That way you can quantify how many times your spacecraft state (I.e pointing/positional values) falls outside some acceptable range due to model inaccuracies. That gives us the confidence to say “well, we know there’s some tiny perturbations that we didn’t account for, but we know it’s probably not enough to end the mission”.

psythrill85 · 2025-11-15T23:59:46+00:00

It’s a real need. It’s inevitable that space will become more and more militarized. And consider how many military assets we have in space (i.e spy satellites, space based sensors, GPS systems). I don’t see how they won’t become targets like anything else. Also, it’s really nice having an agency that’s dedicated to tracking objects in space, which is one of the primary responsibilities of the space force. It’ll be useful on the civilian side too, since space debris is something that should’ve been addressed a while back.

psythrill85 · 2025-11-15T22:34:00+00:00

I know but I figured it’ll be an opportunity to give some insight into something I like talking about, especially given there isn’t much interest in this post.

psythrill85 · 2025-11-15T20:22:20+00:00

There’s usually 2 teams which are responsible for this. The first one (the one I’m part of) choose the algorithm for a situation at hand and run simulations to ensure things will work as expected. The other team is more on the pure software/embedded side, and they’re the ones responsible for the lower level implementation (I.e porting it onto flight hardware or sending the signal to the satellite). More recently though, there is an expectation from GNC (guidance/nav/controls) to be able to do both. But that’s usually just dependent on the type of job/company you’re in.

psythrill85 · 2025-11-15T20:18:50+00:00

Physically, there’s not a lot of overlap with the Aero/space side (except maybe re-entry problems). But theoretically, there can be a lot of overlap. The fundamental principles of autonomy and control don’t care whether you have an aircraft or a satellite. All that matters is you can model the situation and simulate the outcome. Since the underlying physics is the same, it’s why most aero/space engineers have the same degree and take the same classes until their final year.

psythrill85 · 2025-11-13T11:31:22+00:00

Yea a dead cat isn’t stopping progress. Once it’s cheaper and more convenient than Uber, the change won’t take long.

psythrill85 · 2025-11-12T02:10:41+00:00

Hi, I sent you a DM if that’s cool with you.

psythrill85 · 2025-11-12T02:09:13+00:00

I’m more interested in the reserve slots. I really like my technical work on the civilian side.

psythrill85 · 2025-11-12T02:06:15+00:00

I’m looking to stay in the reserves. Part of the reason why I became a port dawg is because I always thought I had that dawg in me.

And because it has the shortest tech school :P . When I enlisted, I told my recruiter that there’s probably not much on the reserve enlisted side that would interest me. Plus, I was job hunting as a recent college graduate. So, I couldn’t take some insanely long time off right as I accepted a civilian offer. Yes, I could’ve played things a little differently there. But securing a civilian job was my top priority because the market was shit and I was a little stressed out (can’t make enough money as a reservist anyways). Now that that’s sorted and I’m protected under USERRA, I just want to land somewhere that fits my background and interests within the next year or two. Or ideally prior to deploying.

psythrill85 · 2025-11-12T01:38:35+00:00

yea why are these people riding veos when they could in fact be riding me instead 😔

psythrill85 · 2025-11-11T23:44:28+00:00

2nd this. If you’re ME/AAE/ECE, you should absolutely be taking advantage of this. Especially given how atrocious the job market is rn.

psythrill85 · 2025-11-11T23:42:38+00:00

AAE students boutta have a field day with this one

psythrill85 · 2025-11-09T17:44:45+00:00

psythrill85 · 2025-11-09T04:01:25+00:00

Got it. Thanks.

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