I have worked in manufacturing for most of my life & am currently employed as a Design Engineer for a Tool & Die shop
spending most of my day working with customer, helping our shop or glued to a computer doing 3-D cad design.
While not a rags to riches story we have moved twice & have been employed with 6 companies since graduating 30 years ago. Started outworking as a
machinist in WV, moved to VA in 1986 & became an injection mold maker, moved to Ohio in 1995 & started working in Engineering in 1996.
I am another one without a College Degree that has done really well but if I had one a new set of doors would open up. At one point I had though
about trying to earn one but am more interested in retiring early one day & enjoy the remaining years.
We have been very fortunate as my wife was able to be a stay at home mom for most of those years & attribute our kids success to this as
our oldest now has a Doctor's degree, middle daughter is in the process of earning one & the youngest (the mx racer) plans to.
Guess I hit my head too many times as a kid....
I have always worked for small companies employing from say 5 to 100 people & one thing I have always done is try to advance
using each job as a stair step constantly moving upward. Hate to say it as I stayed with one company for 9 years & another for
12 years and think that was a big mistake as the potential to keep advancing was not there. In hind sight changing jobs every 3 to 5 years
would have paid off more in the long run as experience does pay in the form of dollars in the pay check!
Ha,ha as I may have the longest post until Rocket gets on here!
My one & only hobby has always been MX!