What’s changed?

[Kelly_Aquatics]

I joined MFK when I was 12 years old with a 75g aquarium in my parents basement, a year later I bought a 125g with money I had saved over the summer. It’s been almost 7 years since I joined MFK and since then I have graduated high school and am now studying engineering. I really enjoy coming on here every now and then and seeing the same people posting who were veterans of the forum 6+ years ago when I first joined. I’m really interested in hearing how you guys have evolved since you joined the forum, what’s changed in your fish keeping taste?, achievements, lessons learned, etc. This really is the best fish keeping forum and I can’t wait until I can contribute again!

 

[skjl47]

Hello; you picked a good field of study. Likely will pay the bills. The site is considerably reduced in the number of old hands. With them gone a loss of expertise.

 

[Ulu]

I made a good living in engineering but I didn’t always do it by being an engineer.

When I was in college in 1971, a professor told me that engineers who could not program computers would find it hard to make a living in the future.

I split my study between engineering and computers and my first job was as an engineering assistant coding computer programs.

My last job was as the computer network administrator for a group of consulting structural engineers. But it was a small company and I also drew a lot of buildings.

You can see buildings that I worked on in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Salem, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Fresno, Bakersfield, Anaheim, Long Beach, San Diego, and other places that I can’t remember now.

I’ve been retired for almost 10 years, but I can drive down the street in our little town and see schools and businesses that I did in the 1970s up through 2016.

It’s been so long that some of them have been remodeled, and one that I did early on has been remodeled three times. It went from being a record store, to a VCR rental To a CD DVD store, and now it’s an optical laboratory.

Now maybe you’ll go into a completely different field of engineering. I didn’t plan to practice civil engineering at all, I studied manufacturing & mechanical, but I only worked for a few years in that.

If I had been smarter as a young man I would’ve studied aeronautical, but we were sending people to the moon, and I figured those things were all pretty well worked out.

In the end, the airplane manufacturing here in California kind of dried up and I would’ve probably ended up doing buildings.

When I was about 30, I drew all of the exterior aluminum curtain wall for the Rincon. This is in downtown San Francisco.

The Towers at Rincon - San Francisco, CA

With a coveted location in downtown San Francisco, The Towers at Rincon blends cosmopolitan appeal with exceptional amenities and attention to detail.

www.thetowersatrincon.com

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

I made a good living in engineering but I didn’t always do it by being an engineer.

When I was in college in 1971, a professor told me that engineers who could not program computers would find it hard to make a living in the future.

I split my study between engineering and computers and my first job was as an engineering assistant coding computer programs.

My last job was as the computer network administrator for a group of consulting structural engineers. But it was a small company and I also drew a lot of buildings.

You can see buildings that I worked on in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Salem, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Fresno, Bakersfield, Anaheim, Long Beach, San Diego, and other places that I can’t remember now.

I’ve been retired for almost 10 years, but I can drive down the street in our little town and see schools and businesses that I did in the 1970s up through 2016.

It’s been so long that some of them have been remodeled, and one that I did early on has been remodeled three times. It went from being a record store, to a VCR rental To a CD DVD store, and now it’s an optical laboratory.

Now maybe you’ll go into a completely different field of engineering. I didn’t plan to practice civil engineering at all, I studied manufacturing & mechanical, but I only worked for a few years in that.

If I had been smarter as a young man I would’ve studied aeronautical, but we were sending people to the moon, and I figured those things were all pretty well worked out.

In the end, the airplane manufacturing here in California kind of dried up and I would’ve probably ended up doing buildings.

When I was about 30, I drew all of the exterior aluminum curtain wall for the Rincon. This is in downtown San Francisco.

The Towers at Rincon - San Francisco, CA

With a coveted location in downtown San Francisco, The Towers at Rincon blends cosmopolitan appeal with exceptional amenities and attention to detail.

www.thetowersatrincon.com

Certainly an impressive resume! I like the idea of making an impact and seeing my projects applied in the real world. Seeing those buildings must feel surreal.