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I was asked to become an engineer by my department head and I accepted
I started my career as an outside machinist for a shipyard back in 1979, we were the ones that broke down the machinery on board and then put the engines, pumps generators.
once I saw what the shop machinists job was I knew that was the life for me I left the shipyard
I spent the next couple of years as an apprentice worked for a small shop then onto Ryan aeronautical as a cc machinist once they found out I could handle manual machines I transferred to that shop 3 years later I became a journeyman.
I was recommended to the engineering shop and was hired as salaried employee got my TS clearance and began working on anything new the senior engineers would come up with, lots of new and exciting drone stuff.
after years of that and that Northrop Grumman bought Ryan I was asked to become an engineer level 2 ,along with a 10 percent raise and continued on to flight test world where I finished my career not bad for a guy with a GED
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