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Discussion on: What's your origin story?

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Noel

It's definitely interesting to read the stories and the things people have done in their lives. While I have had my fair share jobs that fall squarely into the "Other" category, I have been far more focused on tech throughout my life with most of my non-tech stuff happening during high school and a little bit of college. I started working on and with electronics as a sophomore in high school and pretty much knew I wanted to work on with technology from then on.

So, something like this:

  • McDonald's cook (17, still in high school)
  • McDonald's manager (18, summer after graduation)
  • Pasta, salad, and sandwich guy at a Pizza Inn (college)
  • Cook at a couple of steakhouses (college)
  • Waiter (college)
  • Sanitation at turkey processing plant (waiting to go into the military)
  • US Navy Data Systems Technician (this was all electronics)
  • Communications technician (electronics, some software)
  • HMI Engineer (first software job)
  • Controls Engineer (Software, moving back toward electronics)
  • IoT Technical guy (lots of software and electronics == me happy!)