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_Abe_Froman_SKOC t1_j9ht7qd wrote

Not everyone at NASA is a rocket scientist. There are people that manage the rocket scientists and keep them within budget. There are people that assemble and fuel the rockets. There are administration people that write letters and emails about the rockets. There are historians that write about the old rockets and public relations folks that talk about the new rockets.

If working at NASA is your goal, you have an incredible amount of options. Also: math is stupid.

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jiraiya_myoboku OP t1_j9hu48d wrote

damn u right i gotta broaden my horizons

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_Abe_Froman_SKOC t1_j9huy45 wrote

So, quick story, I was a UAV operator for 14 years. I spent five years flying for the Army and the rest as a contractor. Anyway, I used to fly with a guy that absolutely hated our job. Eventually he got so fed up with it that he sold his house and moved to bumf**k Texas to get his A&P license to become an airplane mechanic.

His first job out of A&P school? Reassembling Falcon 9 rockets for SpaceX.

You just never know where life is going to take you. Just enjoy the ride.

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beiman t1_j9imwqn wrote

Take this with a grain of salt, but I worked for JPL/NASA as an electrical engineer and I failed math 3 times in college. Unless you decide to go the PhD route and do alot of R&D for them, anything beyond Calc 2 is overkill.
It was the best job I ever had, and the only reason I do not work there now is because I was a contractor and I ran out of full time work from them, so had to move jobs.

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TheLit420 t1_j9jg3nk wrote

Become the drug dealer for NASA engineers. I hear they really really like stimulants.

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BaconMiester007 t1_j9i0bkq wrote

Dude what an amazing comment even in general. People always compare the hardest jobs to working at NASA or being a ‘rocket scientist’

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