I'm what’s called a Stationary Operating Engineer, which is a fancy name for a boiler operator. We're the ones who keep all large buildings from hospitals to fa

I'm what’s called a Stationary Operating Engineer, which is a fancy name for a boiler operator. We're the ones who keep all large buildings from hospitals to factories to nuke plants online usually by operating boilers and chillers. Over the years (I'm close to retirement) I've worked with many former Navy men, some of whom were on subs, both diesel and nuke. Listening to their stories has always been interesting, but what always got me was the amount of training school they went through. When they hire in I'm the one who "trains" them for our plants and I always find them very competent.