for a few months i worked at a grocery store in produce. pretty fun isnt it?
finishing up emt basic class so once i get certified ill be joining an ambulance squad and rollin with them. in a few years hoping to have my paramedic certification.
on the side i wouldnt mind doing computers, CAD and/or 3D design, and some woodworking.
I like to tell interested people that it's the modern-day traveling craftsmen profession. You need to be willing to take your tools of the trade, go out there in the world (it won't come to you), and find work in a variety of jobs/professions and hopefuly one that will suit your tastes and tallents. You can easily find a boring and mindless drafting job as one of hundreds of drafting monkeys in a large firm - if you're good at it and are satisfied with that. But the variety available out there is pretty wide, but only if you have determination on getting into some specific fields and aquiring tools useful for them. You got to have the best tools to get the best job. IE: lets say a company that does cabinet doors - three tools in your bag guarenteed to get you hired there: basic degrees/cert/experience working with current/modern standards for CAD/3D design, CNC Milling, and a good portfolio (we are
"artists" after all).
For the past few decades almost all industries are trying to err away from one-person one-job employees. So in CAD/3D design, at the minimum they want you to be very computer litterate/competent so for simple things you're not dependent on the IT department AND you know better than not keeping a backup of that $400k project file. On the vahala side to perspective employers, going back to buisness that does cabient doors, a potnetial employee having CAD/3D design experience (the "on paper" part of their buisness) and CNC experience (physicaly making flawlessly (programming the machine errorless) the $ product) and that single person being able to seamlessly bounce back and forth between teh two troubleshooting... well, if you're the only person in the company that does both, make sure they pay you apropriatley for it as you're going to be a popular person.
Just sharing with you so you know what you should be persuing or are getting into. Almost all sucessful or half-content CAD/3D Design that I know of have one extra card up their sleeve that keeps them employed (or happily so).
