Career choices

[Tytus Gerrish]

When I first got into first I wanted to be an inventor. I still do but I know better than to try to make a living of such a thing. Inventing is a hobby; I call it a hobby because hobbies cost money. Though I want it to be my career it’s not something you can just jump into. Your job brings you money and if you enjoy your job well great! You can be pretty happy with that can't you? Through High school I was always determined to be a Mechanical engineer. Towards the end of High school I had a job in a machine shop as a draftsman and CNC programmer through the practical mechanical experience that has given me. It was becoming more and more evident to me how the real world, the engineering profession and manufacturing work. Like all things in the real world it’s all about money. I discovered that most engineers who went to engineering school are lacking necessary knowledge about how things are made, what can be made with what tools, what is necessary to do, and what you can get away with mechanically. Things that they simply did not learn in school. Students that come out of first often know allot of things that many engineers are lacking. So when I graduated high school I had allotted more respect for the machinists and manufactures that make the stuff that the engineers design. Starting in junior college I was offered a Job With EDF as a draftsman by my friend and mentor on team 179, Dan Quiggle. I’m a subcontractor at Pratt&Whitney test systems in West Palm Beach. Here I discovered Where and How much, Government money goes into things. Also that most often an engineer will just come up with an idea. A draftsman will design it, make the drawing and the engineer will sign off on it. And of course the engineer gets pain allot of money doing that. I have seen first hands both sides of the engineering field and there it a very colorful Gradient of the kind of people what the do and how much they get paid. So now I’m certain I want to finish my education get the proper connections and actually be an inventor capable of marketing p product or idea. It isn’t the easiest thing to do but to me it would be the most rewarding. ME’s have great jobs get great pay and have fun. But they don’t call the shots. The Money calls the shots. I believe that your career should support your dreams. Though it’s not the most sure things I today more confident then ever say I Want to Be an Inventor