Recently, graduated from one of the academies and I was way in over my head while I was working my first and second job. So, I am looking for some advice and even some reading material that will help me out. Anything will be helpful and very much appreciated.

[image] dbeierl: This is perfectly ordinary servomechanism/feedback theory. Except for the shared mental model part. In Maine " take a left where the old grange hall used to be" may not fit your mental model if you don’t remember the old grange hall… Or if I was to give directions where I w…

[image] Hawespiper: Ooopsssss… “Essentially, the doctor claimed that the testicles had switched sides at some point.” These guys didn’t have much on the ball.

[image] Kennebec_Captain: Except for the shared mental model part. Right. Haha – in RI it’s where Almacs (local supermarket chain) used to be. Didn’t he spend his first month aboard doing this? [Dad_wheelbook01]

How much do you want to bet? That’s the question. If the 1 A/E take the new third over to the valve, holds up three fingers and signals to the third to close the valve, and then watches him as he closes it, that information is in the thirds head more solid then otherwise. Then it’s a much better…

That’s the point of making the drawings of the valve lineups. Puts muscle memory in with the rest – and you can’t draw it if you don’t understand it.

Yes, making a drawing is huge, I meant how much should the first bet that it was done, and understood? [image] dbeierl: Didn’t he spend his first month aboard doing this? Also, I’d say no, probably not, got to hit the ground running. The cadets draw out systems, I don’t think the thirds do …

[image] Kennebec_Captain: Also, I’d say no, probably not, got to hit the ground running. unfortunately this is true. It would be nice to do it like we did in the Navy where you had to qualify a watch station which included oral interviews with three lower people in the chain of command and e…

I always took the position any new engineer needed a certain amount of training and familiarization. To do otherwise was at my peril.

True. There is no magic to becoming competent. In my first job as a 3rd engineer I had to physically trace and draw each system, fuel, air, steam, condensation etc. Until I did that to the first engineer’s satisfaction I was nothing more than an oiler and my assignments were alongside the other oile…

Be pleasant to the Chief Officer. He could turn out to be helpful in the future. Like when he is Captain.

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