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From Records to Wrenching
My ten-year journey to figuring out what the hell I want.
In 2008, I entered university to do accounting. Did I want to do accounting? Sure, I suppose…maybe. Well at least the university admitted me to do accounting, and university is the thing you do after high school… right? This story isn’t about that though, so to fast forward, in 2012 I’d dropped out and was trying to figure out what the hell to do with my life. If I wasn’t in school, I needed a job, and the industry I wound up in changed my life, my interests, and my plans.
On November 21st, 2012 I joined the Technical records department for an airline. My job function was to input into a database the maintenance and flight records for the aircraft in our fleet. At the time, the airline flew B737–8, B767–316(ER)’s, and ATR 72–600’s, and I was assigned one B767, three B737, and one ATR. I spent four years in that department and while I was very intrigued by the industry, I hated sitting at a desk all day. Over the years I gained close to 40 pounds, let a pre-existing drinking problem get the better of me, and fell into one of the worse phases of depression I’ve ever been in. But through all of that, I did find a couple of silver linings in the clouds.
In August 2015, I decided to leave the apartment I shared with three of my friends and move back in with…
