I spent 12 years as an aircraft mechanic in the US Air Force. At 33 I left active duty and now I'm a 35 year old senior in college getting an accounting degree with an internship/part-time job at an aerospace training company.
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Wow, that sounds like a trip. What brought your decision about? Physical strain, options?
I got deployed three months after my daughter was born. That was enough of that. Totally changed my priorities and tried a couple of things in the civilian side and decided going back to school was a good idea. From there I found myself interested in accounting of all things, lol. Life is too short to suffer through bs just because of a decision you made when you were young!
That’s inspiring. I can see how that event would trigger something in your brain. Just a gut feeling about accounting? I’m torn between engineering and programming.