“Welcome aboard, Rayland,” Uncle Kellen says, shaking hands with my friend the following week. Beltane wasn’t able to offer Ray a dazzling salary for when he finishes his PhD, but we can offer him total creative control over his machine learning projects, absolute freedom over the types of projects he selects and, of course, the responsibility to lead his division and begin creating software to help all the different divisions of Beltane serve their clients more efficiently.
It’s been a few decades since we added a new division to the Beltane Engineering portfolio. This is the most exciting thing to happen since Cal talked Dad into getting some drones. Already, Cal and Ray are deep in conversation about who will manage the drone projects meant to make our inspection safer. I hear Ray say
