~You know sometimes, what you are intended to do.

You are drawn to it like nothing else.

Nursing
Growing plants
Auto Mechanics
Administration
TECH
SCIENCE
music...

~something calls you from the beginning, and you will find a way to do it no matter what, in your life

THAT is a "HEART SONG"

It sings to you so that you come to it...



Has that happened to you?


You cannot explain why you want to do what you want to do, but feel drawn to follow it for unexplainable reasons


And in the end you find it to be the most wonderful thing you could have done...

if you did NOT - you miss a thing that you cannot put a name to...



Do you listen to yourself?

Do you have "intuition"?

If you ditch all the outside inputs, and think about WHO YOU are; can you maybe be that?
THUS:

I sing my heart alive

UBU

 

Wolf? I want to R---, Pillage and Plunder. I want to be a Pirate.

 

Good! I know a man (and a Lady) that like to hunt down people like that.

I bet you didn't think adventurers still existed....

 

Oh!! But I do. I do. Not sure I would call it Adventure so much as survival. Cuz once ya start that IS the game.

 

Good! Excellent in fact, see your nearest Armed Forces recruiter, and ask about Special Forces programs

 

I have returned to engineering a couple times, finally got my degree in it. I have always had a technical brain it seems, still do the automotive stuff, but just wasn't quite happy with that as a living. Loved welding and building things, figuring out better ways to do the projects and such. Now I use all of that with my engineering degree.

 

Maybe I should go after one of those. I always look beyond the repair straight into possible modifications to improve stuff...

I've always been like that, it's something I can't help doing.

But I think it would be faster for me to just get the wire-feed I always wanted...

 

Wow Dutch. I understand that perfectly. I thought I was the only one that figured I could make it better and last longer with just a little more work. No matter if it was the dishwasher that just gave up or the Rock truck I was hired to drive. And truth be told after a lifetime of doing just that I got pretty good at it. You also I would bet. Right on!!

 

Please stand by for a gratuitous statement of the obvious:

Frankly - it isn't hard to think of improvements, as cheesily as most things are made these days



*Oh - you thought it was just your impression, did you?

 

Carpentry and woodwork for me. It comes naturally for me and I knew it

Since I was in middle school.

Now I have a woodworking business and I am in the process of

Developing a new canoe paddle design and construction process.

I did venture away, but came back shortly after.

We like to build things that never existed before, the visions all come

From within.

 

My mother has said, many times over, that my father and I both possess an innate ability to figure out how stuff works. I come from a long line of craftsmen (including welders, carpenters, and electricians), mechanics, and inventors.

My grandfather had entered into a partnership once to help develop a small gasoline-powered engine - the engine had some early design flaws and granddad bailed out of the partnership as he thought it was a risky venture - I can't remember if the other party in the partnership was Stephen Briggs or Harold Stratton, but that engine was later perfected and went on to become one of the hallmark designs of Briggs & Stratton. My granddad told me once he regretted not staying in that partnership...

I've been tearing stuff apart since I was a kid - I was always curious about how stuff worked and, if it was broken, I'd figure out a way to fix it. Sometime, I'd even figure out how to put it back together LOL... My mother hated it when I tore stuff apart as a kid - she was always afraid I'd electrocute myself, or something (which I damn near did once - the electric shock threw me across the room - my dad walked in, saw what happened, and busted out laughing...)

I've worked in various different trades, but seemed to do best as an electrician. I later got an Electromechanical degree and went on to become a PC repair tech (go figure...) I tried to set my career path in I.T. - I learned you can't force something like that - it's best to stay with what you're inherently good at - not that I'm not good as an I.T. tech, but my personality conflicted with others in the field - I guess I wasn't "geek" enough, or something. I was also a printer/copier service tech in an Epson-certified shop - didn't mind the work but hated driving around to the various sites to do it.

It wasn't until I got this job in facilities maintenance that I figured out where I "belonged". Because of all the stuff I've done over the years, including private/corporate security and janitorial, I was a natural for this position - I'm a one-man maintenance department and, sometimes, I fill in for the I.T. guy. I seem to have finally found my niche...

I seem to also have a knack for writing long-winded novels in these posts, so I'll stop now...

 

Bluntly - you couldn't stop being you if you TRIED.

~ and they pay you for that, congratulations!