All Things Considered, I Should Have Studied...

[Seeker]

....Mining Engineering.

I like rocks and caves. I love classifying ores and minerals. And I think I have partial Dwarven ancestry.

I really should've studied Mining Engineering, or continued with Geology.

However, at the time, my best friends (Electrical and Software Engineer) told me that I shouldn't.

Bah!

Moral: NEVER listen to your friends.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Well... if you feel like a Dwarf, just apply for a regular mining job, I think it will make you happy. Happiness

[mrboo123]

I don't know where you live, but around here if you have any sort of engineering degree, mining companies would be more than willing to hire you. If your electrical, you could work on stuff like the various systems used in mining production for example.

EDIT: Opps, should of looked harder. Living in Korea and a Canadian expat? If your really desperate to work in mining, tons of jobs in Alberta and Saskatchewan but I don't know if you would want to move again...

[molly bloom]

And I think I have partial Dwarven ancestry.

Don't tell Scandinavians this. The Norse myths are very insulting about dwarfs (I was reading about Kvasir and the mead last night...)

[MikeH]

Oerdin did Geology, maybe it was a lucky escape. Buy your friends a beer.

[Lorizael]

I should have studied... something.

[molly bloom]

I should have studied... something.

Media studies with applied macrame and additional hairdressing.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Oerdin did Geology, maybe it was a lucky escape. Buy your friends a bear.

corrected

[Provost Harrison]

In the gay sense?

[Aeson]

I have some Chromite deposits you could look at if you want!

[BlackCat]

Oerdin did Geology, maybe it was a lucky escape. Buy your friends a beer.

Doesn't prove anything bad about geology - Oerdin would be wrong no matter what he had studied

[Berzerker]

Oklahoma and Arkansas has seen a recent spike in quake activity

and the frackers deny the extraction of lubricants from the ground has anything to do with it...

what does Hollister CA and a very "quiet" section of the Marianas trench south of Japan have in common?

Talc

yup, the stuff used for chalking up a pool stick... Apparently the intensity of quakes depends largely on what kind of rock etc occurs in the friction zone. Removing oil and gas should increase the friction and quake activity as the ground settles.

[The Mad Monk]

That would be odd, since there is a proven connection between an increase in activity and the introduction of lubricants into the ground.

In school we studied examples of several dams and a waste injection well.

[Berzerker]

depends on what they mean by introducing a lubricant into the ground, the increased pressure (thats what fracking does, true?) combined with the easier release of friction thanks to the added slippery stuff might increase activity while reducing the intensity of the individual quakes over all.

[Proteus_MST]

Sounds like Dwarf Fortress would be the ideal game for you

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/