In this very eye-opening episode we talked to Olivia Mogielnicki, a mineral engineering student, who spent her PEY around Northern Ontario and Manitoba literally mining for gold! Notes: 2:02 - Why she chose to study mineral engineering, some of her previous work experiences 2:58 - Living on the mining site working 12 hour days in 2 week rotations 4:30 - Working at the oil sands as a project coordinator for AECON 6:46 - Maintaining friendships during on rotation weeks; a day in the life doing metallurgy 10:07 - Investment banking for mining, negotiating her PEY contract 13:30 - Deciding to leave AECON and the logistics around that 17:03 - Lessons from deciding to leave a job 19:05 - New job - working on surveying at Vale, pushing for more work 24:00 - How well school prepared her for working underground 26:15 - The high stakes of work inside a mine 27:30 - Learning curve over the first 2 months 31:44 - Things she wishes she'd been taught before going on PEY 34:00 - What changes she plans to make to her courses in 4th year 35:10 - What she likes about working underground 37:30 - Learning to "tone down your Toronto" 41:30 - Playing Dungeons and Dragons for the first time!! Music by Shawn Lee
In this very eye-opening episode we talked to Olivia Mogielnicki, a mineral engineering student, who spent her PEY around Northern Ontario and Manitoba literally mining for gold!
Notes
2:02 - Why she chose to study mineral engineering, some of her previous work experiences
2:58 - Living on the mining site working 12 hour days in 2 week rotations
4:30 - Working at the oil sands as a project coordinator for AECON
6:46 - Maintaining friendships during on rotation weeks; a day in the life doing metallurgy
10:07 - Investment banking for mining, negotiating her PEY contract
13:30 - Deciding to leave AECON and the logistics around that
17:03 - Lessons from deciding to leave a job
19:05 - New job - working on surveying at Vale, pushing for more work
24:00 - How well school prepared her for working underground
26:15 - The high stakes of work inside a mine
27:30 - Learning curve over the first 2 months
31:44 - Things she wishes she'd been taught before going on PEY
34:00 - What changes she plans to make to her courses in 4th year
35:10 - What she likes about working underground
37:30 - Learning to "tone down your Toronto"
41:30 - Playing DnD for the first time!!
Music by Shawn Lee