My lightbulb moment was at my first competition of my first (and only) season as a student.
The season had been long hours, tough problems, getting drafted to work on the chairman's essay and presentation, etc. More than once I remember becoming annoyed with a certain UPS mentor that I thought acted like he knew everything because he had drove to win 2 world championships on a pretty awesome team (He didn't really act that way! My uninitiated high school mind didn't realize he was teaching us
) .
The first time I walked out of the tunnel leading into the pit I kinda stopped unconsciously and hit me. Every one of the people here just did that same grueling 6 weeks (and more). That was the moment that it clicked and I've been hooked ever since.
This was my sixth full year with UPS.
I'm glad I hung in there
