6/18/17 Boy Is Becoming A Man?

    Boy is wanted by a few places at this point and it feels good to have gotten him this far.  He has worked at Alamo Drafthouse (A.D.) long enough that his supervisors know him well enough that they have figured he is a good one to keep and promote within.  Boy tells us of other people he has known who have climbed the corporate ladder and are now sitting in important roles for the company.  If he was graduating this semester he said they would be willing to offer him a new-ish position where he would be a technical advisor involved in the building of the newest Alamo Drafthouses.  The company is growing at a rate of about fifty new theaters a year, so there seems to be growth, all the time.  He has also been offered managing positions a few times, but his degree is on the technical side and he is not a people person.
    He has been given a project to see what he can do.  There are two goofy robots outside the Alamo Drafthouse he works at, and he has been told to recommission them and make some usage of them.  He has some ideas and is ready to move forward, so if anybody goes to the A. D. on Slaughter and sees the robots outside moving or with new electronics, that was Boy getting them back to work. 
    He has been working here long enough that although he is a runner that delivers food, he also carries a toolbag with him, and says he regularly fixes chairs/ replaces them, replaces the $10,000 bulbs in the projectors, and does a lot of the maintenance behind the scenes.  All we can do is encourage him, and I tell him, if you are going to carry tools, carry everything you might need, even basic stuff like hammers and pliers.
    As much as they like him, this semester he has been taught by one of the engineers at Spansion, now Cypress Semiconductors.  He came up to Boy last week and asked him for a resume, telling him he was sure he could get him a co-op job.  Because Boy is still in school, best they could offer him is an internship, which he says will pay in the $12/hr range.  Not bad for a beginning guy.  This should expose him to the different modules of building semiconductors,
    If he gets the job, we will both be working in the same facility, which I think is really cool.  He was told interns start at $12/hr, so we will be making about the same, now that my pay has been raped.  If all goes well, one of the modules will offer him a job which last I heard starts in the mid $50s.
    All we need now is for Boy to get real and finish at Texas State University and see who gives him the best offer.  I still want him to continue at A.D. because we get free tickets to watch movies and the higher management people sometimes even get cards to get all their food compensated.  We would totally mop up, but it would also be fun if he worked on site with me.