Before they outsourced the blasting, I helped run the primer cord and sometimes dropped the blasting caps.
I drove a cat 797 hauling the overburden to the spoil slopes.
After we got all the coal, production stopped and went to a different mine. Too far for me to go, so I had to quit.
Right now I'm unemployed, but might be working for a coal sampling lab. If that don't go through there is a place downtown that might hire me to work on some Windows servers. All just a waiting game at the moment.