2011-09-21, 02:40 AM
I am a Laboratory Analyst for ALCOA. We are a global aluminum company with one big refinery in the entire United States: Point Comfort, Texas. We get samples from various departments every four hours, and they need things like percent solids, grams per liter solids, total alkalinity, total caustic, and percent aluminum. We also do other things like melt alumina down with flux to make glass beads to run in an X-Ray Spectrometer. One of my big jobs every week is to run ten grams of our finished product under our Scanning Electron Microscope to make sure there aren't any major deformities or impurities.
It doesn't pay as much as I think it should, but compared to other jobs and being unemployed, it is amazing. I wouldn't trade it for anything short of something that was actually in my major field of study.
It doesn't pay as much as I think it should, but compared to other jobs and being unemployed, it is amazing. I wouldn't trade it for anything short of something that was actually in my major field of study.