Prior to engineer? Research Assistant, Tutor, Health Inspector, Lifeguard, and department store drone one Christmas season when I was 14 or 15..I'm curious, RB, what else have you done?
Same with all of you? Like what jobs have you had before you were an engineer (or while you were an engineer if you have a side hustle)
I've work in half a dozen retail stores or so (including Sears, Payless, and Christopher &Banks), worked in the dishroom in the dining hall in college then switched to catering (which is partially how I paid for school - plus summer jobs & my mom's GI Bill), tutored, was an RA
It may sound strange, but it's a pretty straight logic line from Lifeguard to Nuclear Engineer.
Concurrent with engineering, I do some pro-bono genealogist and genetic genealogist stuff. Maybe one day I'll charge for my services but whatever I could get for it would be a fraction of what I could get doing PE work on the side. So it's really a hobby.