John Deere Green

To all those that are wondering how the job interview Austin had with John Deere with here it is :) It was my first time ever leaving Brighton overnight so that was a bit difficult for me and by the way separation anxiety is a very real thing. We were so lucky that Grandma and Grandpa Crosby were ready and willing to watch him during the days and Kyle was just great watching him and spending the night at our house so Brighton didn’t have to get too out of his comfort zone.  Our first flight was 5 hours delayed leaving salt lake city and they had cancelled our second flight into Waterloo Iowa thank goodness my dad got me a card that gets me into the delta sky rooms they were able to book us on the flight that went into cedar rapids so we had an hour drive after we landed. We drove to Waterloo from Cedar Rapids…and saw absolutely NOTHING the entire way there we finally pulled in to our exit and were on a main street with nothing on it and we thought we were in the most dinky hicktown it was hilarious! Getting in at midnight we went straight to bed since I had to get Austin to the John Deere Facilities at 7:30 for his first interviews.

 I joined him at 10:30 and we had lunch with the other Engineers that are in the (EDP) Engineering Development Program. It sounds like a great program for the new graduates to figure out what they want to do. They work 3 rotations around different areas of John Deere of their choice then after the 3 rotations they choose their more permanent job focus. After that we got to tour the engine research facility that had a lot of very impressive testing capabilities which was great to see but my favorite was the factory tour we went to after that we got a personal tour on a little gator with an ex john deere engineer that’s now retired and a tour guide. He knew what he was talking about and we got to the the engines process from beginning to end and it was just awesome! Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures on the tours. And after that tour we were met a community expert that took us around a town that we had yet to even see.

Turns out they have everything all the big chains and two or 3 malls they have a lot of new housing developments as well as tons of old historic places. They have very small but very picturesque downtowns that are all about community in the summer they have old Disney movies and other family movies played in the shell park and everyone takes out their families to the park for the outdoor movies and its free! They have festivals every month and live music and concerts and rodeos and its really close the university of northern Iowa and its just a very close knit small town which I love although even I have never lived in a town this small but the prospect of Austin working for John Deere and moving out on our own to a place neither of us has been before is a bit intimidating its also very exciting. It was a short and tiring trip and we missed our lil man but are looking forward to getting an offer from them by Wednesday or Thursday this week!!!!!!!!!! Only 26 more days and we are outta here!!!