Where did you see yourself....

[Capt Worley PE]

...when you graduated HS?

I figured by 29, I'd be president of my own heavy equipment manufacturing firm.

 

[SCarolinaNiki PE]

Software engineering for a big gaming company making tons of money.

 

[Judowolf PE]

I honestly never thought I'd make it to 30...

 

[wilheldp_PE]

I had grand plans to own a computer building/service company, so I majored in computer engineering. I graduated just after the big tech bubble burst, so there were no computer-related jobs to be had. That dramatically changed the course of my career. But I am now happily employed in an industry that I never knew existed until I landed the job about 2.5 years ago.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

I was getting ready to start a degree in Chemical Engineering and use that as pre-med. My hope was to be a doctor, but not really sure which one at the time (although I was voted "Most likely to become a gyno for all the wrong reasons" by my fellow seniors).

In hindsight, I missed my calling as a plastic surgeon with an emphasis in breast augmentation...

 

[snickerd3]

I didn't have specific plans, I was just going to try to get through college.

 

[Flyer_PE]

I sure as hell wasn't planning on a career in nuclear power. I figured I would be somewhere in the defense industry right up until it tanked in late '89.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I sure as hell wasn't planning on a career in nuclear power. I figured I would be somewhere in the defense industry right up until it tanked in late '89.

I got into the silly service side of the DoD right before it tanked.

 

[Judowolf PE]

I planned on flying F-16's when I joined the Air Force out of HS, spent 4 years working on them instead (awesome) including 6 months in the sand(enjoyed that too), worked with factory Gen Dynamics engineers and figured I was smarter than they were so when I got the chance I got out and went back to school to be an engineer, thinking i would build fighter aircraft, but I worked for a utility full-time thru school and decided to stay when offered the opportunity...

 

[Flyer_PE]

^I had the same hopes until my sophomore year in high school. That's when I found out that being partially color blind, near sighted, and two tall for an ejection seat were all reasons that no armed service would teach me to fly.

 

[willsee]

I didn't have specific plans, I was just going to try to get through college.

ditto

 

[EM_PS]

Drunk. and then asleep.

Wasn't much of a prognosticator back then...

...still ain't

 

[knight1fox3]

I didn't have specific plans, I was just going to try to get through college.

ditto

+1 Though I started off in software engineering with the mindset that I would be designing and testing video games. Did not enjoy the material so I switched to electrical.

 

[YMZ PE]

I honestly never thought I'd make it to 30...

+1

Still might not

 

[engineergurl]

wow... I had wanted to join the Marines and make a career out of it. I did not want to go to college because I didn't know what I wanted out of life except to serve in the military since that is what I had planned for so long.

I was not 18 yet (and had a ways to go) and could not get parental consent to enlist so I went to college majoring in the thing I thought would piss my parents off the most thinking it would only be a year until they had no say. Three degrees and six jobs later, I'm not surprised that I married someone in the military and follow him around the country.

At least I made it past 30...

 

[Master slacker]

Planned on majoring / graduating in Zoology and go to med school to be a team doctor for professional sports teams.

 

[Supe]

I sure as hell wasn't planning on a career in nuclear power. I figured I would be somewhere in the defense industry right up until it tanked in late '89 building racecars even though there was never any money in it.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

I didn't have specific plans, I was just going to try to get through college.

ditto

This pretty much sums it up for me.

 

[Ble_PE]

I thought that I was going to be a great college football player, get a big headstart on medical school with the NCAA funding it, and having a small, small chance of playing in the NFL. Didn't think that I would call it quits after 2.5 years of football, transfer schools, and rack up a decent amount of loans before I graduated. I wouldn't change it though, because I would have never met my wife if it I hadn't made those tough decisions.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Professional beach bum. Hanging out with hot chicks on the sand, getting a tan, maybe making a few bucks as a lifeguard.

That's what I did while in college.