Today is my first day on the job at Masten Space Systems. I am joining them as their first full-time business development / sales monkey, and I couldn’t be more excited. Why, you ask? But simply, it’s the industry I can get excited about working in. And in that industry, few companies 1) have the momentum from recent flight success going for them that Masten currently has, and 2) will give a 23 year old who’s never done sales before a shot at building revenue.
GTRI was awesome – I worked there for about a year and a half – if you count the year I spent as a co-op there. The people there are awesome and you couldn’t ask for better co-workers. I was involved in some great high level projects focused on improving business development coordination for the 1400+ employees, and I enjoyed what I got to do.
But it’s not space. Friggin’ space. Ya know, that place that we happen to exist in. But there’s so much more out there than this little piddly tiny planet we live on. There’s absolutely unimaginably immense voids of space, giant stars, supermassive black holes, planets, and so much more out there. The planet we know and the sun we revolve around don’t matter on the scale of the 100-400 BILLION stars in our galaxy alone. And just when you think you’ve grasped that, check out the Hubble Ultra Deep Field – which is equal to 1/13,000,000 of the sky. Look at that – better yet – look at this 3D illustration of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. This place is unfathomable.
We’re a long way away from Star Trek, but small companies like Masten are making space more accessible to the normal person (or normal researcher) than ever before. And I’m very fortunate and extremely excited to be a tiny part of that. Extremely excited. Get me started on the topic – I dare you.
I’m going to love this job.
