Oh my goodness

Look at all this machinist stuff...



That's a regret in my life.  If I wasn't so sewn up in military science and officer training and I was a bit better in math and science, I might have stuck out the Engineering degree instead of switching to History.

In a perfect world, I'd be a double major.  Mechanical Engineering and History. 

But, alas, 5 hour calculus was a bridge too far.  I'd have tackled it, with a bit more time, successfully, but it isn't for more time.  It's a weed out class.  You have the talent to pass it, or, preferably, excel at it, and do it with a marginal instructor, then you are cut out for engineering.

But I had more than enough mat to be a machinist hand!.  Again, born 60+ years too late. 

I am fortunate to have the wherewithal that I can afford to take class in this stuff.  But it's just learning.  And just scratching the surface.  It's not a life in it, a career in it. 

And if it was a career it might just be a mere job.  And my passion for it would fade.  Like with brewing when I was a professional brewmaster.   (Which I'd still be if job were plentiful and pay better 20 year ago.)