July 29, 2015 10:54 am Leave your thoughts
This is what an average day of a quality assurance technician looks like:
6:00 – Leave Home, get a coffee, and enjoy a quiet Vancouver.
6:25 – Get to work in one piece without being hit by bad drivers and change into work gear.
6:30 – Check last night’s test results,
July 29, 2015 10:51 am Leave your thoughts
When it comes down to it, a lot of my job is exploring, given that I have to travel to all these roads to inspect them. Sure, I have maps and a GPS and everything, but I never really know what to expect when I get to my destination. Some areas I am already familiar with, from having worked for Millar Western last year,
July 29, 2015 10:48 am Leave your thoughts
This past week has been quite chaotic. Being tasked with road, bridge and culvert inspections presented two major challenges; uncooperative weather and altercations with insects.
By uncooperative weather I mean that one day we got absolutely drenched and had to use the quad exhaust pipes to keep our hands warm. In the same week it was hot enough to go for a dip in the Willow River (see photos and video).
July 29, 2015 10:42 am 1 Comment
I have been telling you in my last couple blogs about the planters and planting but I haven’t told you how the trees are planted or even what they look like. Here are a few tips I have learned over the summer from checking trees.
My job entails going out to the cut-blocks that the tree planters have planted or are planting to ensure that there are no holes (a place that didn’t get planted because it got missed),
July 23, 2015 1:58 pm Leave your thoughts
Hello friends,
This week I will share with you another chapter of my exploration of the countryside around Grande Prairie. I hope that these trips will give you readers some ideas for places to go and things to see when you are next in the Grande Prairie area.
This past weekend I went to Dawson Creek in British Columbia which is approximately 150 km northwest of Grande Prairie.