Being an engineer is very technical....

Prior to getting my graduate degree in business I had two years experience as a Mechanical Engineer doing design and field work on robotics systems for the servicing of Nuclear Steam Generators. That work involved an understanding of statics, dynamics, deformables, vibrations, kinematics, heat and mass transfer, computer networks, computer hardware, software, electrical and mechanical components, pneumatics, hydraulics, logistics, radiation, hazardous containment, decontamination, budgets, business processes, technical writing, document creation, human resources etc etc.

Upon graduation from Grad School, I took a job in Atlanta in Business Systems Consulting for Arthur Andersen. During that short six month period, I met the largest group of commercial Pirates and Whores that I never imagined to exist at that point in my life.

I saw an industry and a US Commercial landscape that was simply terrifying the from the perspective of "bamboozling" customers and the government for profit. It was heart numbing and mentally jarring simultaneously.

If I could weigh ethics for the group of 30 or so i associated with for a short time, they might have together totaled that found in two or three of the folks I worked with in Engineering, from a skills perspective as well too.

College Educated people without grounding in international travel and humanity seem to love to lie and cheat and steal to pay their way through life. So what's a person to do who doesn't seek to sell his/her soul to make a living?

Small Business is often the landing spot for us folks. Mind you. It's not remotely heaven there either. There is also a lot of corrupt commerce but it's often kept in check a little better. Or it was anyway...

Unfortunately, my trip through Small Business turned out to be a nightmare to. Thus you've found me here shitting on deer instead of in some quaint little cottage sipping on cheer. Maybe someday soon, when this all comes tumbling down, we'll be able to meet there too.