Started off sweeping floors in a machine shop, worked my way up while I was going to night school at the local JC while I was in Highschool, and got my journemans papers at 19. I enlisted in the Coast Guard to let Uncle Sam pay for the rest my education...figured out that I liked it after the first 4 years....22 years later, I retired. Uncle Sam did pay for my masters degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in environmental science. When I retired from the military, I am a heating and air conditioning company owner and certified master contractor/technician