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Is it called a Q clearance? There is a Q clearance. I don't bear one of those. He knows that for a fact. You have to get re-evaluated every like years. Oh, that's the highest clearance. Okay. Oh, it's a higher clearance. What is higher than a Q? They have a SCI. SCI? Yeah. Oh, wow. And then there's like DOE clearance and then there's like DOD clearance. And they have some equivalencies. They're a little bit different. Like DOD is like secret, top secret. And then DOE is like L and Q. Oh, I see. And then they have SCI which is like they have these things called vaults which are like places, slates to go. And you have to have a SCI to go in those. Oh, I see. They're way more locked down than that. I like that you said the vault. All by itself is locked down pretty tight so I can imagine what the vaults are like. That's insane. Well, then why? What do you do for the labs? I'm a software engineer. Oh, cool. Yeah. Bunch of programming. Software engineer. So just engineering your software or? Yes, I write a lot of code. I do a lot of. So what does a normal day look like for you? I'm leading a pretty large team. And so at least half of my day is just stuck in meetings and planning and stuff. Very cool. The other 50% I usually am doing technical work. Cool. I kind of like that because then it's broken up to where you're not just straight up doing technical work, but then you get to have another aspect that you can get situated or whatever, so maybe you're not burnt out on one particular. Yeah, for sure. Definitely. All that. Being able to run a group will take energy for sure. Yeah. How many people are on your team? About 20. And are you from New Mexico? Yeah, I'm from here. That's sick. From Albuquerque? Yeah, pretty much. Well, I've been here since I was five. My dad retired out of Kirtland. I just went to all my school here and everything. Well, where were you born? I was born in California. R-E-M-T-C. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I have a bunch of siblings. We're all born different places. Not just in the military. Yeah. But the homeless here. Yeah. Because he retired pretty early. Oh, cool. And so how did you get into your occupation? You know, I come out of high school. I didn't know what the **** I wanted to do. And so I went to CNM for a couple years. And I just took a bunch of different ******* classes just to figure out what the hell I wanted to do. And I remember taking a C class over there, a programming class. And I was like, yeah, this is what I want to do. Sick. Just kind of studied a bunch of different stuff until something clicked. And what degree did you get? Did you just get like an engineering degree? Computer science. Oh, yeah. And how long would it take to get one of those degrees? You can get it in four years. Oh, cool. I was in college for like—it took me about six years to—because I spent a lot— I took a bunch of different variety of ----, changed my major, started more like medical. Oh, cool. I was thinking about doing that. I did some clinical trials in the hospital and ----. I was like, you know what? That's not for me. That's just not the setting for me. Yeah, I feel—dude, honestly, I straight up feel you on that. As cool as it is, uh-uh. I'd rather be where you're at. And I'm not knocking any of the doctors because there's a ton that come here, but I don't want your job at all. It's too much. You have to be a particular person for that. You have the analytical side, but I don't see you want—you don't have the vibe. You don't want a vibe like that. Just because I feel like you see all that negative ----. It's not like there's anything positive. It's almost like it can suck you dry if you let it. Oh, yeah. I feel like you—to be good in there, I think you have to have a little bit more of like a nurturing— I don't know. You've got to be able to put up with all these people. You see people at their worst, really, right? Like they're sick. They're hurting. You know, it takes a special kind of person. I love the material, but— The environment is different. You need like a surgeon or something to where you come in later when it's—you know what I mean? Yeah, they're just ******* knocked out. Yeah. The job of a nurse would be a nightmare, though. Yeah, I have a couple of family members who are nurses. The ---- they have to do is nuts. Yeah, I couldn't—I don't know. That's why I'm saying some of the— I ain't working your ass. It's like, I'm working out right there. It's like— Yeah. Yeah, one of them works over at the VA. And so they're in like—they got, you know, like the psych unit over there. She worked over there for a long time. They're all just throwing ---- on each other. Yeah, stealing ---- on the wall. Yeah, exactly. It takes a special kind of person. And a lot of them get like assaulted and everything by these people coming over here. Yeah. They're gonna be like, they're in there. Someone's on drugs. It's like, if I'm gonna become a nurse, I'll just be the doctor then. You know what I mean? That doesn't make sense to me. It's like, I don't—I won't—you know, it doesn't—nuh-uh. Because I see the role, and I say, well, I'll just—if I'm gonna go for the nursing, I'll just be the doctor. Exactly. You know, go ahead and bear that more schooling. Yeah, I think—and there's a decent number that go—you know, they go for nursing, and then they decide they kind of want to do that and go for like the nurse practitioner. Yeah. Which you can still like—you can write scripts. You can— An MP is pretty much an MD, right? I mean, what is the difference? It's pretty subtle, like, because there's— Like, do you need the doctor's authority on certain things, or—? You know, I'm not actually really sure on what the details are, because I know a nurse practitioner can be your primary care provider. Yes, absolutely. So, yeah. Maybe just—they're not—I would imagine maybe the scope of what they can do is just a little bit smaller. Yeah. Bob's Teak scared their people, too. Yeah. Damn, it must be big over there, because there's a lot of people that work there. Yeah, I think we're over 15,000 employees. Damn. It's a pretty big campus. I wonder then when someone's like, oh, do you know so-and-so? It's like, dude, it's too big. I mean, you probably have seen them in passing. Yeah. You know, but it's like— Yeah, but people definitely ask that a lot. Like, hey, do you know this person? I don't know, are they computer science? Because then maybe, but even then— Yeah, they're not in your department. Even then, it's, you know, still a pretty slim chance. Yeah, they sent out an email about me once. A little mass email or whatever. It said that your path, your travel, whatever path they were taking to work in the morning had been compromised. And that was some of the email that they had sent out to the people that one of the ladies was carjacked. Yeah, so I was involved in that. So I was like, Jesus, even one of my buddies ended up getting—two of my buddies got that email. One of them, I won't mention his name, you know, because he says he doesn't read anything unless it's attached to whatever it is that he's sent me. I don't even see anything that's to read. So it's like, you know, but he went back in because I told him about it. And, you know, he's obviously curious. He went back in and he found the email. Right. I had the email printed out and brought to me. So I saw the email. Showed a picture of, like, her car to me. Oh, wow. It was probably about once a week, several months ago. It just happened in front of the shop. That's the only reason I was involved. Someone was carjacking the lady or whatever. Your path to work may have been compromised. That's how I knew they cared about their employees. Right. 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