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09-24-2022, 08:40 PM | #41 | |
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10-05-2022, 01:57 PM | #42 |
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I think about this a lot lately. When I got out of high school I didnt really know what I wanted to do. Our school thought everyone should go for a 4 year degree. I let my brother talk me into going for Tool and Die, that happened to be what his friends were doing. He just knew I shouldnt be a auto mechanic. My last year of getting my tool and die degree the economy took a down turn and I got laid off from the Die shop I worked at. I ran cnc lasers for a company until the big green tractor factory hired me on as a CNC machine operator. I never wanted a production job, but it paid the bills for about 15 years. Then work offered a electrical apprenticeship in 2019 and I decided to jump on it. Its been good so far, but I still dont know what I really want to do with my life.
I really regret not going into HVAC after they told me 4 hours of labor for a furnace install amounted to $2500 plus the cost of the furnace. |
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10-06-2022, 12:29 AM | #43 |
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Re: Off topic: If you were 18 again?
Or as I put it "Thinking with the big head, not the little one!"
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10-06-2022, 02:13 PM | #44 | |
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10-06-2022, 11:30 PM | #45 | |
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Five years later, I make my own schedule, earn more money, and get to see my kids grow up. When I was 18, I thought about being a mechanic. Its an honest living, but I didnt want to do what I loved as a hobby, for a living. When deadlines, budgets, and other peoples expectations are involved its now longer fun, its work.
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10-07-2022, 11:06 AM | #46 |
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Na, don't think I would want to start over because life choices would more than likely I would still end up in the same place in life.
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10-09-2022, 08:00 AM | #47 |
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A good thread. Lots of thoughtful responses. I have few regrets, but I would have applied myself a little more, maybe taken a few more risks, bought a better house earlier and gotten back into the old car hobby sooner. I have loved just about every job I ever had: consulting, research, sales.
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10-09-2022, 09:12 PM | #48 |
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Woofa and I share a common love of flying. The high school I attended was across the street from an airport, the next thing I knew I had a job washing airplanes and doing odd jobs in the hangar after school.
When i graduated from high school I had my commercial pilots license and was flying for an Air Line at 23. Looking back on my life I thank God every day for all that I have and 22,380 hours of safe flying. I told my Doctor there were three things that kept me from becoming a Doctor that was grades 10-11and 12. Gerry Birch Bay WA. |
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