During the early days of my career, I worked with geologists and metallurgists who kind of guided me where I am today. It had been a while since I reconnected with them but it feels great to take some time to visit the mines and geosciences bureau to check out the collection of rocks and minerals now that I am older and I can acknowledge some level of success at what I do.
One geologist gave me a pyrite as a paper weight from way back in 2006 and told me its fools gold because it does look like gold but it is not. He also told me he doesn’t like that I am dating my ex-husband who was my boyfriend back then as a concern. Now, I know he was right, time series data does give you more depth and breadth in knowing people, I realized I was quite naive with men. I only had brothers growing up and I was practically raised by my father and they were unable to protect me from that bad marriage without being straightforward that they don’t like my ex. I thought my ex was someone who would understand what I do but I guess he just pretended and as the years go by it had become complex and difficult to pretend given the kind of work I do.
What I really do is quite complex and my current scope of work is somehow a bit too much as well. I got really really depressed for the past two weeks and it made me so unproductive. I am seeing the details, the granularity of technical details, and the ground work seems immense. There is still a need for me to study and understand how CO2 emissions are generated from processes and how control measures can be implemented to reduce emissions. Did I bite more than I could chew?
I had a hard time with iron and steel because I have no experience on its core process even from my audit and project management experiences. The methodologies are complicated. I have to admit, I am not that familiar with this sector. F-gases and minerals were easy and straightforward and I am comfortable to say that I do know what I am doing with them. Here, I seem to be treading deep waters that I am not familiar with. I am about to finish this five month crazy assignment that pushed my limits in terms of knowledge on industry and new technologies.
But I believe, they chose the right person for the job because I know what to do but very much willing to learn, getting harder in these hard-to-abate sectors for industrial decarbonization…still loving what I do. Mwah!
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