Since some of you don’t necessarily know what microsot works downloaden I do down here on the Ice, I thought I’d write a microsot works downloaden bit today on what it is like to live and work at McMurdo, and microsot works downloaden write about what I do a little bit. (Now that I’ve been microsot works downloaden down for a week, which seems like a month, I feel like I’m qualified to say!)
My current job here is as a Beverage/Recreation Accounting Clerk, and microsot works downloaden I work in the Recreation department. I work for a company called NANA Services. It is microsot works downloaden a subcontractor of a Raytheon. Most of the day-to-day operations of the microsot works downloaden station are run by these two companies, as well as companies that microsot works downloaden fly the planes and helicopters.
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This sort of gets to what it is like to live at McMurdo. It’s not very big (1,100 people max!), you’re limited in where microsot works downloaden you can go to a handful of trails, and you have microsot works downloaden a roommate. So it’s very different than microsot works downloaden the life most people are coming from. For this reason, it’s a good thing that we’re working 6 9-hour days (or for some, 5 12-hour days!) - it keeps you good and busy! However, the microsot works downloaden function of my department is to give people things to do on the microsot works downloaden days and times they have microsot works downloaden off. So there is a music room, with instruments you can microsot works downloaden check out (guitars, a bass, keyboards, etc.), you microsot works downloaden can rent skis, you can do things in the craft room, or microsot works downloaden you can chill out in the library. We coordinate the different activities that microsot works downloaden go on here, like concerts and classes and trips.
It’s really different being down here - not just because it’s cold with no plants (and no bugs!) It’s a microsot works downloaden different way of life, which takes some adjusting. There are lots of people around all the microsot works downloaden time, and it’s not easy to microsot works downloaden have private time. But the good thing is that most of the microsot works downloaden people who make it down here are nicer and more interesting than microsot works downloaden average, so it really makes it fun.
