Unrelated?

[Beth Sweet]

As others have said, it's hard to find a career where FIRST does not contribute.

My original major in college was Broadcast Journalism with a minor in Spanish. The journalism came from my extensive press release/article writing that I did from robotics, and found myself enjoying that.

After I realized that I wasn't finding as much fulfillment as I wanted from journalism, I switched my major to accounting, a major which, at my school, actually has a higher GPA requirement than any form of engineering. When I started working with 1504, I found myself more in the business dealings of the team, and that I enjoyed that.

Find something you enjoy doing and try that out. Honestly, a FIRST Robotics team is essentially its own business. It runs on a budget, a production schedule, you must promote to be successful, you're trying to expand constantly, you're trying to do the most using the least possible... it's a business.