Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Randal Farquharson (Jack of all Trades) in Time for a career change?

Posted by Master Chief Petty Officer Karl Johansson (Chief Engineer) in Time for a career change?

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Randal Farquharson (Counselor) in Time for a career change?
Randy paced his quarters back and forth for what seemed like an hour as he tapped his fingers together in front of him. Over and over again he had thought of how to progress his career, how to move along his position on the ship. He’d been a counselor sure, a yeoman in training, but he wanted more. He stopped and pushed his palms into his eyes, rubbing them hard as he exhaled before he stood up straight and said, “Alright Randal… Enough is enough. What’s the worst that could happen? He says no and laughs you out of engineering?” Randy says to himself out loud as he cocks his head to once side “Well actually yes that would be pretty humiliating wouldn’t it?” He exhaled and crossed his arms in front of the mirror, “It’s now or never, get out there and go ask!” He said sternly to himself as he straightened a wrinkle on his kilt and brushed his uniform flat before turning heel and walking out the door.

Making his way to Engineering Randy held a PaDD tucked under his arm and pressed the buzzer outside of the CE’s office. He knew that it would be a stretch for someone like him to be accepted into the field, a counselor cleaning plasma injectors? A shrink calibrating the intermix chamber? All he could do was ask.

–Randy–

“Huh what? uhh, come in” The distracted but still cheerful voice of the Sentinel’s chief engineer called out.

Inside Karl stood over his desk sleeves rolled up and had his hands inside a large cylindrical object, he pulled with all his might and ripped out wires then laughed in triumph “Got you little andskoti” He unceremoniously tossed the wires behind him and grabbed a tool and put his hands back into the cylinder before looking up “Ah, Lieutenant, how can I help you?” He said with a wide grin before yelping in surprise at a spark then focusing back on the cylinder “Djöfulinn” He swore and removed one hand and reached for a mallet and used it to hit the cylinder on one side “Sorry”

Master Chief Karl - CE

Watching the Chief elicited a stifled laugh from the young man as he watched him tinker and, well, fight with the device he was holding. He wanted to introduce himself and get a feel for the Chief’s personality and this little display told him plenty! “Chief, I came tae introduce masel’ and ask for a spot on yer crew, but right now, I want tae ken what ye’re workin’ on?”

–Randy, JoAT–

Karl laughed as he continued his work “Every other year there’s a friendly football game between the Nordics and the Nordic adjacent states, you know part of the old Baltics, Scotland, Ireland. And every time my hometown gets flooded with mad kilt-wearing lads who drink us dry” He hit the device with the mallet again “So I’m fairly well versed in the language, if you can call it that” He added with a wide grin showcasing that he was joking “of your people, but do try to either speak slower or more Glaswegian, now those stabby bas..” He stopped himself “Fellows… well I know how they speak” He pulled his hands out of the device then smiled at Randy and put a hand out “Karl, but you know that.”

“This stubborn piece of equipment is a sensor unit connected to a gravity regulator, they monitor and adjust the gravitational pull of the deck plates keeping us on our legs.” He wrapped a knuckle on the sensor “Well it’s supposed to , this one keeps adding .33 g’s everytime we go to quarter impulse. It isn’t a software issue so I’m trying to figure out where the hardware issue is”

Master Chief Karl - CE