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Ever since I was a kid I've wanted to work at NASA. For the past four years since I've graduated from college, I've not received so much as a phone interview for all my applications (I'm a mechanical engineer). Does anyone on /sci/ work at NASA? What advice would you give to someone like me who dreams of working there?

>> No.9969379

>>9969370
shoulda interned better. Friend of mine works for NASA as an aerospace engineer. It's just a regular job...

>> No.9969530

>>9969370
Worl for absolutely anyone else
NASA is a worthless bureaucratic shitshow that has achieved fuck all since the 70s
It's all pork programs and corruption now
Private industry is the future

>> No.9969576

>>9969530
this, private satellite/space organizations are advancing and NASA is stagnating

>> No.9969579

>>9969370
Convert goy

>> No.9969593

>>9969370
NASA positions are filled via USAJobs. If you want to work for NASA, get a gubmint job, any gubmint job. Once you are a federal employee, you now have preference over pretty much everyone else when it comes to applying for other federal jobs, IE NASA. So you do some time at some other agency for a few years and transfer in.

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9969597

>>9969370
You could try mailing them a bomb. That might get you noticed.

>> No.9969791

>>9969530

Fucking this. I work with NASA on a daily basis and while it's true they do have some really smart people there, most are retarded bureaucrats. Even they acknowledge their organization is a bloated monstrosity.

>> No.9969796

>>9969370
Why would anybody want to work at nasa not as an astronaut?

>> No.9971017

>>9969796
I would like to work at JPL on designing rovers and shiz.

>> No.9971025

>>9971017
Why rovers in particular
Why not something of value instead?

>> No.9972129

>>9969370
I used to want to work for the JPL,...

Turns out those mothefuckers just stole my ideas and never even bothered to give me a heads up that they would like to use more of my skills.

savagely ignorant and greedy, are these fucks.

>> No.9972147

>>9969370
Work for boeing, then get transferred to their department working with nasa