[speaker001:] oh have you ever thought about joining the Peace Corps
[speaker002:] uh for not for any longer than about ten seconds
[speaker001:] yeah was that was pretty much my thought too
[speaker002:] no I have no I have no real desire to do that
[speaker001:] I I've I've I've actually I've talked to people that uh have have joined the Peace Corps and uh the idea of like you know spending spending like two years in a village in Uganda is you know teaching people how to like you know plow a straight furrow is just not my idea of something I want to do with my life
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I don't doesn't appeal to me either where I work uh there's a guy who actually joined the Peace Corps he worked here for a couple years and then he went to Ghana
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] in Africa
[speaker001:] and uh what did he say about it
[speaker002:] well he hasn't come back yet
[speaker001:] oh you mean he he I he did this just recently
[speaker002:] yeah he went just recently
[speaker001:] I you know I I thought that joining the Peace Corps was something that everybody did like in the sixties you know in
[speaker002:] well there's yeah but there's actually been a resurgence of people getting into it I guess part partly for economic times
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh I don't know any other reason but lot of people are been getting back into it I think
[speaker001:] I yeah I I I talked to I was talking to somebody uh the other day and they they said I think they went they were in the Peace Corps and they ended up going to like Central America or something and uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] they ended up in this place where they hadn't seen a white face in like you know seventy five years
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh they had to go on the it's like they had typical it it's the typical third world story you know they they had to every every once a week they had to get on the bus and then like drive up into and take drive up into the mountains and stop at each village you know and and have like give lectures on like public health and stuff
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] you know it's like don't piss in the wells that that type of stuff and uh he said that they would get on the bus
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it's like the children would come up and like touch him because you know they had never seen somebody that light you know a gringo and that it was it was pretty it was really pretty strange
[speaker002:] sure
[speaker001:] I it was it would seem to me like if joining the Peace Corps is like you know going to another signing up to go to another planet you know
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I don't I'm not sure I mean I guess the motivation is partly you want to help these people but I think it's a lot of people join it just to go to another country and kind of for the adventure of it I guess
[speaker001:] I would really be afraid of I I don't know when I I went to school I I uh I took a course in Parasitology and stuff like that I would really be afraid of like you know of all the diseases and stuff that I could catch and like and man it it seems like a hell of a way to lose weight
[speaker002:] um oh yeah yeah seems a little rough for that
[speaker001:] you know oh I don't know
[speaker002:] but uh I don't know I kind of you know I don't mind going to Europe you know traveling and seeing the sights but I don't want to have to go to Africa to
[speaker001:] uh-huh I
[speaker002:] no the maybe they they'll they'll fly you over there and back for free but doesn't seem worth it
[speaker001:] no it it doesn't seem like the kind of job that I I'd really be interested I'm really interested in either
[speaker002:] what type of work do you do now
[speaker001:] oh I'm a I'm an engineer yeah
[speaker002:] okay for who do you work for you work for
[speaker001:] uh uh Lockheed
[speaker002:] oh really I didn't know they had an office up there
[speaker001:] yeah uh we uh they have a we work for some uh Lockheed Sanders we we don't build the aircraft per se we work on the uh like the avionics yeah we work we put the
[speaker002:] Sanders avionics okay yeah I've heard of Sanders Corporation were they bought out by Lockheed and all of that okay
[speaker001:] yeah yeah they they were bought out by Lockheed and it's a they were they were involved like in in radars and thing and uh and things like that
[speaker002:] right that's that's kind of the work that I do so that's why I've heard of Sanders I work for I work for Georgia Tech
[speaker001:] uh-huh who do you work for oh okay uh-huh
[speaker002:] in research
[speaker001:] yeah we it it's it's not bad it's not bad work although I'll tell you it's like uh I being in the defense industry is not is not really the thing to to be in right now
[speaker002:] right that's right
[speaker001:] it it's sort of like being in steel like ten years ago
[speaker002:] yeah you're just kind of biding your time
[speaker001:] right you you know that uh I was just talking to somebody about this the other day is that uh I I haven't seen a a a new hire uh somebody you know just fresh out of college brought into the company in like a year and a half
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh what's happening is that you know we're just like kind of getting grayer and grayer and grayer you know the the there's no growth here
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh yeah it we're essentially the same although some some laboratories are hiring if if they can find new technology uh you know or make an efforts to get into the commercial markets
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so we're kind of getting smaller through attrition but there in some cases we're hiring also
[speaker001:] yeah this the this attrition thing though I that that that's like death itself in my mind