Although a retired EE, a career that gave me a nice job, good salary and nice pension. However I think if I had to do over I might have taken a different path.
In a previous life, I worked for a telephone company part time in college and full time for year thereafter, before returning to get my EE degree. While working at the telco, I was offered a chance to go to Ft Wayne corporate office where I could use my first university fresh minted business degree. I declined preferring to work with my hands on PBX (Private Business eXchange) troubleshooting and installations plus meeting with the public. When I was an EE I was Dilbert in cubicle city for corporate both large and small. There were times when I wielded a troubleshooting solder iron, but missed those public contacts.
Who knows, if I had gone to Ft Wayne perhaps I might still be there and on the 765 steam crew (there's the train link to justify this posting!), or maybe not, given the upheavals in the telco industry, I might have been working in a totally different job 1000 miles from Ft Wayne.
But what is, is.
