In my mid forties
Got my degree in electrical engineering …
but have never worked a day as an engineer
Have had an incredible career in food / restaurant / hospitality operations that, despite the difficulties that can and do pop up, I wouldn’t trade for being an entry level engineer in my 20’s and 30’s. That said, not sure it’s something I want to do into my 50’s.
Oddly enough, I’ve gone back to relearning and re familiarizing myself with some of my old coursework and EE interests in the last couple of years. (Since Covid) and since falling back into hifi.
Have taken a couple online courses and am considering going back to school …potentially for a masters in EE. Not sure I could swing it at this point … but it is starting to be more attractive .
I grew up with an audiophile dad who was more of a music-first rather than gear-first person. He was a jazz person and I grew up in a house with far-outside free jazz playing morning, noon and night .
His system starting in the early 80’s was a Carver MXR-900 receiver, Nakamichi BX-300 tape deck, Denon DCD-1500 cd player (with an r2r chip in it) and a direct drive Denon turntable (can’t remember the model)… played through ADS l-810 speakers.