Out of high school, i wanted to go to college for Mechanical Engineering, just so i can do something in the automotive field.

Well after my first year of that, I was never focused, and got reaaally distracted, and pretty much got kicked out of school.

skip a few years ahead and I'm at a community college with a great automotive program.

I do that for a 2.5 years top student 4.0 gpa yada yada yada

and guess what, after all that schooling, i cant stand working on cars, especially my own.

I'm a shitty example, but my current work is a big reason why I didnt pursue employment in the auto industry. to make waht i make now (i work in the post production tv/movie industry) as an auto tech, i would have dumped thousands of dollars in tools, worked 1-2 years at the bottom, work my way up, to something better, then make ookay money. 5 years down the line in my current work will leave me waaay ahead if i took that auto tech path. it sucks but thats life.

i get to do more computer, tape machine, and digital encoding work where I work now, so its all relatively stress free and physically easy. plus i enjoy it. i couldnt picture myself enjoying working in a hot tech bay in the summer under hot cars etc etc