List of all jobs I’ve had in chronological order:

-Assistant MMA instructor (part time)

-Deli clerk

-Industrial automation intern

-College resident assistant (part-time)

-Forum administrator (part-time)

-Software intern*

-Electrical engineer*

-Equity analyst/blogger (part-time)

-Freelance finance writer (part-time)

-Lead electrical engineer*

-Engineering procurement/finance lead*

-Facility engineering/finance manager*

-Macro analyst / talking head

-Side gigs: board director, VC fund adviser, author

*These ones were all for the same aviation employer

When I was entering college, my initial goal was to work in space-related electronic systems or in solar energy systems. As I learned more about them and as the Great Recession hit, I ended up shifting into aviation kind of randomly, but liked it a lot for about a decade.

Out of all of the jobs, the most surprising to me was “talking head”. That was certainly never really part of my toolkit and just kind of happened somehow.