How has your involvement in FIRST affected your career choice?

[RoboMadi]

Let see............

I'm not an Electrical, Mechanical or Computer Science Engineer. I'm a System Engineer. I make sure that the system goes well and try to minimize the risks. Its like Project Management, but for Engineering Projects. Coming back to the question of how has it affected my career?.....lets see

Because of FIRST my all four years of College are paid.
Because of FIRST I'm working with Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum as a Robotics/Education Intern.
Because of FIRST I'm also working with Metropolitan Washington Airport Authorities as a System Engineering Intern.
Because of FIRST I'll be interning with Northrup Grumman Mission Systems next Summer.

I"m just a freshman in College, and FIRST has affected me in many different ways.
But i would like to point out something here. FIRST provides us with a lot of opportunities (even outside FIRST), its upon us to make sure we use them wisely and obtain the best results.