In this very eye-opening episode we talked to Olivia Mogielnicki, a mineral engineering student, who spent her PEY around Northern Ontario and Manitoba literally mining for gold!

Notes:

2:02 - Why she chose to study mineral engineering, some of her previous work experiences

2:58 - Living on the mining site working 12 hour days in 2 week rotations

4:30 - Working at the oil sands as a project coordinator for AECON

6:46 - Maintaining friendships during on rotation weeks; a day in the life doing metallurgy

10:07 - Investment banking for mining, negotiating her PEY contract

13:30 - Deciding to leave AECON and the logistics around that

17:03 - Lessons from deciding to leave a job

19:05 - New job - working on surveying at Vale, pushing for more work

24:00 - How well school prepared her for working underground

26:15 - The high stakes of work inside a mine

27:30 - Learning curve over the first 2 months

31:44 - Things she wishes she'd been taught before going on PEY

34:00 - What changes she plans to make to her courses in 4th year

35:10 - What she likes about working underground

37:30 - Learning to "tone down your Toronto"

41:30 - Playing Dungeons and Dragons for the first time!!

Music by Shawn Lee