Multi talented, living outside "the" box

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Ok, well, firstly I'd like to say hello to ya'll and thank you for letting me join. A little(maybe not so little in appearance) about me:

. I'm a analytical flesh bag full of curiosity and fortunately enough mental ability to sometimes be referred to as "smart", but that is depending on the people I'm interacting with in my opinion. I got bored going to college for marine biology, switched to electronics and maintained my secondary as Sustainable agriculture.

Not overly satisfied with available locations or positions in those fields I completed tech schooling for electrician in Residential/commercial/ industrial environments, did well and enjoyed it. Two years in electrical installation/repair/new construction, got bored, took a test for an Engineering Apprentice position and of 2,500 applicants I placed 34. Completed Apprenticeship while employed at a high security Data Center, then a five building commercial complex became entirely my responsibility

That was shortly followed by the addition of being the Engineer for California's National Guard Headquarters in Rancho Cordova near Sacramento, because after years of ongoing maintenance issues the property manager had heard of my reputation for hard and honest work with above average communication and customer service skills. I outlined the issues the building had, fixing things within my ability and employment contract, and for the HVAC issues I requested a specialist HVAC company to assist in analytics and installing new shielded cable, control cpu's, and additionally, upgrades of the HVAC roof top units, we resolved the issues the first year of my employment with the California National Guard Headquarters. Similar happenings at the 5 building complex in Roseville, Ca.

Not long after I began working at one of the largest Nor California Healthcare facilities and quickly gained a reputation as a "game changer" where my results, according to the shop steward, "ran circles around the other guys".

I don't look for standing out, or glory, I like challenges and solving problems, I have an obsession about doing a good job and doing it the right way mechanically and morally. After 5 years I was shift lead, and had been assigned a specialty repair and assembly shop that was separate from the normal Engineering department.

Somehow I again found myself put solely in charge of the results for a facility and directly in dai I y communication with management, but in regards to a specific niche, the biggest challenge for me though was this was additional to my preexisting engineering responsibilities at the same facility. Which was prety interesting and I liked it, however, it was just unfortunate to be among a highly toxic work environment created by the majority of other engineers including two consecutive Chief engineers, who both were fired prior to my choice to leave.

During all this employment changes into the engineering field, I gained a new interest, hobby, and slowly it became a skill, metal arc welding.
Previous hobbies had been salt water reef tanks and model trains(HO scale), as a joke my computer programmer friends would say (please excuse the borderline humor) "how's the hoe train stuff going?" And similar childish jokes, simple but fun without getting crude or offensive.

I've spent years researching the Renaissance age, simply for curiosity and I sought then found summertime small weekend jobs with a traveling Renaissance fair, those folks know how to have fun! I have been to about 17 camping music festivals, the oh so misunderstood "Burning Man" in 2011 and 2012, yes it was an experience, wow. Then, just to make sure I didn't like it I skydived 3 times. Once in So. Cal. Once in Toledo, Wa. and then after a music festival in the jungle of Costa Rica, I jumped on the pacific ocean side and oh it was beautiful! Finished Costa Rica with a 3 day white water rafting trip... again it was a "whoah!" Experience.

I also got really interested in the mechanics of firearms around age 25, became a small time collector and trained heavily, visiting many firearms training facilities, even a special invite to a four day "live fire squad training course in small unit tactics, infiltration, night ops, and in field trauma treatment" that some military friends had pulled some strings and "secretly" got permission for me to attend after a brief interview. That was the absolute craziest thing I've ever done aside from jump out of a perfectly good airplane at 8,000 feet... three times.

Now, I (40y.o. heart failure, adhd, autism, anxiety, depression, and an eating disorder) just live in the forest with mountain lions, bears, coyotes, wolves, foxes, one badger, some turkeys and once in a while I put deer meat in my freezer and my 14 y.o. Vizsla (2x terminal cancer and ar Par) and I try not to let our illnesses kill us too quickly and enjoy what we can without becoming homeless somehow.

Yee haw! And a woopity doooooo! Thats the gist in most areas of my life.

Looking forward to learning some interesting things, and if the opportunity ever arrives I'll gladly provide any useful information I can.
 

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