Say What?

When I heard we were talking about Nondestructive Testing on this latest “My New Life” webisode, I said, “Excuse me?”  Really, has anyone of you ever met someone who when asked what they were majoring in or pursuing a career in answered NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING!?  That’s what I thought, well apparently someone has heard of it, cause at Cowley College there’s a program, a teacher and a student that we all were introduced to that know a whole lot about nondestructive testing.

Here’s the basics….it’s INSPECTION.  So if a building is going to fall down, or a bridge has a crack that is about to give way, the Nondestructive Testers will be the first people to know about it.  Actually, they do lots of work before the stuff ever goes up to make sure it DOESN’T fall down.

This is going to make a whole lot more sense when you watch the interview and wait till you see my eyes pop out.  It’s how much money these folks make.  Yep, so far I’m all into this career.  I will admit, I did get the giggles when we started talking about “cracks”……very unprofessional of me, but Heck, on this day I was having one good time, maybe it was the Pink Saloon outfit that had me looking like a Zebra, Skunk, Referee or all of the above?  Whatever it was, thanks to Joe Clasen and Justin Colling for playing TV with us, in the midst of all the fun, I learned a lot about a career I didn’t even know existed.