The Place I Work

I'm sure you're wondering what kind of place am I working at now that I'm not teaching. I work for a seismic (pronounced SIZE-mik) company. It's a company that looks for oil and then tells other companies where to dig for the oil. How they find the oil is really cool! Here is a quick and short way to tell what they do. They make little earthquakes in the ground (so little you can't even feel them!) and then use computers to measure what the ground does and that tells the people what kind of rocks are in the ground. If they are over oil, the ground acts one way; if they are over big rocks in the ground, it acts another way.

Think of it this way. If you have a bunch of rocks in a bowl and you bump it a little, what happens? Now, if you put water in a bowl and bump it just as hard, what happens? Did you see a difference? You can see a difference, but because we're looking underground and can't see, we have to use computers to measure what happens with the ground. Oh, and we also go out on boats and look for oil under the ground under the ocean!

If you want to see the long official answer, go to our website. Sorry to say, I don't get to help with that part of the company. I help fix computers, make lists, look for computer parts, and make sure everyone who needs a cell phone has one so I work in an office, not with the people looking for oil. But each job is important!