HAIRDRESSER HAS TOP NUKE LAB CLEARANCE

There’s noth­ing wrong, of course, with a hair­dresser hav­ing top-​​secret clear­ance at the world’s most impor­tant nuclear weapons cen­ter. But it is kinda funny. From the Los Alamos Monitor:

Anthony Moya is a Q-​​cleared [top secu­rity rated] com­puter tech­ni­cian at Los Alamos National Laboratory by day and a highly skilled razor-​​blade-​​sculpting hair­styl­ist at his own salon by night…
He remem­bers first dis­cov­er­ing his inter­est and tal­ent for hair­styling in the fifth or sixth grade… Moya’s par­ents went out danc­ing on Saturday nights and Moya would look over his mother’s coif­fure and snip away any unruly hairs.
“Finally, my mother let me style her hair,” Moya said. “I also trimmed my father’s mus­tache and got them both ready to go out…“
Moya said while he con­tin­ued to cut and style his family’s hair through­out the years, the tim­ing was never right to enter styling school to earn his for­mal styling license.
Over two years and 1,000 hours later, Moya received his cer­tifi­cate in bar­ber­ing, passed the state board exam­i­na­tion, and interned at an Espanola salon.
“The only dif­fer­ence between a bar­ber and a cos­me­tol­o­gist is bar­bers shave and cos­me­tol­o­gists do nails,” Moya said.
“Barbers have to learn to apply per­ma­nents, color, and blow dry hair, and use a curl­ing iron. They also learn to per­form facials. I am now cer­ti­fied in both bar­ber­ing and cos­me­tol­ogy…
In 1979, Moya went to work at the [oft-​​troubled] plu­to­nium facil­ity at TA-​​55 as a mate­ri­als tech­ni­cian and in ship­ping and han­dling… Moya now per­forms com­puter tech­ni­cian work at NMT-​​3 [the Nuclear Materials Technology divi­sion]…
“I’m just thor­oughly enjoy­ing life work­ing at the lab and styling hair at the salon.”

January 25th, 2005 | Los Alamos and Labs | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.