"Gonna be an engineer.."

So as everyone or some people have noticed all my blogs start with song lyrics, usually ones that describe the post. Well believe it or not this is a song and I heard it on Monday by Peggy Seeger.  A silly song about how a woman wanted to be an engineer but her mom told her to be a lady instead.  Well after interviews and more interviews and rejections and rejections...

 I tried to keep my head up and then my phone rang today...

I got offered a Coffee Processing Engineer position at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Yes a civil engineer is working at a Coffee factory, but you know what, it just proves with the right attitude and a love for coffee you can go far in life.  ;)

I chose this song mainly because after all these interviews and rejections I started to question my major choice. Is engineering for me? Can I really do this? Am I going to get a job? I got nervous; all my mom could do was tell me to wait and keep my head up.  After accepting the position I wasn't excited but nervous again. The fact that I am going to be in Vermont all summer, learning how to be an adult, learning how to be an engineer, it all overwhelmed me.  But my mom and dad were so unbelievably proud, and that was enough to make sure I told myself to "man up" and do it.

Plus my dad even admitted that the news made him cry tears of joy. See how tough I am, I can make a 57 year old man shed a tear.(P.S. Don't tell him you read this =p)

I guess the moral of this post is that there are times in life where you question your decisions and you start thinking what you have done was either a waste of time or just you don't belong.  But with the right attitude and a go-getter persona you can make things work out, cause things fall into place when you have a good head on your shoulders.

Now other than that, looks like my new summer home is Waterbury, Vermont.  Gotta get my housing all set then I would love visitors!

Road trip, Anybody with me?