Letter to the Editor Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
Those are some of the most profound words ever written… The older we get, the more we can understand. I know very few people who knew “what they wanted to do when they grew up”. In my case, I was not interested in the traditional high school experience, so when I got the chance to spend half of the school day at a Vocational Training Center I chose electronics.
After High School I would attended the college where my father worked. The University had a Mass Communications program. It sounded like a way to “coast”, and since I had no idea “what I wanted to do when I grew up” I enrolled. They had a radio station with no technical support. Just a hint that I had some background in electronics, and 3 years later I was doing engineering, had the required F.C.C. license, and other clients.
In the 1980’s and 1990’s my brother-in-law was working in Molybdenum mine above Leadville. The job was taking its’ toll, so he got an Electronics Degree and started working in a school district doing Technology support. His job grew into the technology as it came. There were no degree or certificate programs, just the school of the “real world”.
A nephew got a full scholarship for any university in Colorado. He chose CU Boulder and was designing Green High Efficiency Buildings. To promote the project, he began designing Web Pages. He graduated top in his Degree Program. Did he go on to design Green Buildings? Nope, he builds and supports web pages.
The older we get, we can look back and see how randomly life unfolds. Some are blessed with fortune, great families, good friends, but almost everyone has some aspect of their lives to smile about. We often focus on missed opportunities, bad career choices, and family challenges, but for most people lucky coincidences, good friendships, and happy family moments outweigh hard times. For that I thank a very kind and benevolent God. I have no other explanation.
Mike Baldauf
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