Pursued a degree in mech E because I wanted to go into automotive design, but fell into the o&g route because that’s the biggest industry in my city. 13 years in, I’ve pretty much done the whole gamut as far as being a petroleum engineer from new product design, aftermarket support, manufacturing/testing, and field installations. These days I lean heavy on installations and structural design for offshore projects. This career provides for my family but my spark for it is long gone lol.
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so you like design cars… Im confused
Graduated from University of Southern Florida with a degree in Mass Comm - decided I’d rather work in finance during my last year but still went through with graduating. Moved back to St. Louis and worked as a wholesale manager for an automotive lighting company called Diode Dynamics. I was always pretty good with sales but I wanted a career in finance.
Went back to school and got my MBA in 2020 and now I work as a Budget Analyst at a medical transportation company. Happy with the career change and do feel like the sky is the limit within this field…although I do miss the grind with sales from time to time
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No I wanted to design cars, ended up working in oil and gas designing upstream tools and installations
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This word isn’t used enough.
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Turn 50 in a couple of weeks 
and only started Yoyo this year.
Many years in commercial radio as a producer and announcer, then TV production and photography. Current full time gig is mostly photography of whisky bottles.
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That’s awesome. TV/Movie production was always my dream when I was younger. I always wanted to be a part of a Hollywood production in some way - still would if I had the opportunity!
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Yeah it’s something that most people do for love not money though 
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Father, Husband, Podiatrist
I have been a pizza cook, pizza delivery, bar back, server, kinkos copy worker night shift 8p-4a, construction worker in ground pools during the day, Navy Sailor ( inserts yo-yo here ), Phlebotomist 7p-5a, remedial student during the day, when to school during the summer graduated with biology degree. Between this time and finishing Podiatry school I was married had 2 children, we had moved from Oklahoma to Ohio for podiatry school and back to Oklahoma for Podiatric residency, Podiatric residency ended, Podiatric employment and Marriage imploded, Single Dad, new relationship, new practice, became a lawyers husband, built a practice, built a house, cycle, run, became a new father again to 3 more children.
Yo-yos have been sprinkled through there but much more consistently since 2015.
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Started my career as an aeronautical engineer at a major aircraft company, moved to a test facility as a wind tunnel test engineer. When aerospace collapsed moved to IT as a programmer, systems admin, and department head in the electric utility industry. Now comfortably retired. Social security and 401K pay for the necessities, VA pays for the fun (until it ain’t fun anymore… 
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I’ve been a Software Test analyst for the past 17 years. And a freelance one for the past 7 of those.
Quality Assurance is what it’s sometimes known as. Once I was done with a Bachelor Economics (Facility Management) I just applied around to see who was hiring and landed this gig as a trainee. Been doing it ever since so I can feed my family in which me and my wife have 5 kids and 3 cats.
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I’ve been a Registered Nurse since 2004, mainly working in critical care, but now I work in vascular access, which means I put IVs in people all day. I’ve been considering a career change, but I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Sounds like a fun gig!
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Wow… I’m really into true crime stuff, I think I could have been a good detective because I obsess about things. You have quite the credentials there! Forensics has always fascinated me!
Those college loans are no joke, that’s the main reason I dropped out, I didn’t want to still be paying off my loans 30 years down the road. My brother is still paying his close to 25 years later!
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I’ve honestly never heard of that one but is that what people are using to code new games for the original Nintendo? I heard about the retro games just recently, sounds awesome!
That’s awesome man, happy early birthday to ya! I’m turning 44 in about a week and a half. I just got into yoyoing in January. I mean, I dabbled with them in the 90’s with the basic butterfly Duncan yoyo’s but it never went anywhere. The yoyo’s that we are seeing to day have changed the game for me!
So I hope you youngins continue throwing well into your golden years, just think of the skills you’ll have when you all are grandma & grandpa’s! You’re grandkids will think you are the coolest!
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I’m a designer. I like the problem solving. Usually more laying out the text well vs designing logos or something. Mostly I do design for digital now and then pass the designs to the front end developers. Way more into the idea and creative parts than the actual building and finalizing so I like what I’m doing now.
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@GTDropKnot, are you a font freak? Most GD’s I know are, lol.
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I’m very proud of the fact that I paid mine off decades ago. It was painful at the time but a deal is a deal.
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Blood spatter analyst is the same job Dexter has lol
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