Why did you decide to do the work you are doing now?
It chose me really. naturally good at fixing tons of little electronic stuff. Or jerryriggin things to get things done. Worked with folks who cared, and who believed in and relied on me. 
guess Ill expound a bit how I got here.. Lost my job, wal mart logistics. which I "Enjoyed" was pretty depressed, we were expecting our first kid... went through a few jobs in between.... depressing spring/summer 2003. After my son was born, Friend got me a job working for his dad. THought Id do well. but the guys all working there, drugged out, drunks. No cares. My iq easily double any of them. but he let me go seasonal.....
waltzed into this place. took the tour. it was air conditioned, working on high speed printers... hired on the spot. came in, kicked ass. but they put me on nights, that was a tough time for me. The supervisor got busted smoking pot in the parking lot. They left me in charge after a couple months. I was like
you sure....?
during that time, we doubled our number of Kodak printers. And terminated our 24hr contract of xerox equipment. so we had 6 machines that when they died.... they DIED lose the whole night. enter Peels. LOL got to where I could yank those things apart in minutes. jerry rig em back together long enough until the tech could work on them. they were absolute crap. then they bought continuous machines, with NO contract. I found out later, only because I was here and would fix them. that was the years I worked SOOO much. LOL
2006, we bought a kodak Nexpress. mega high tech Digital color printer the size of a bus. Sent me to New York for training. They tried to build a "photobook" business. Just like shutterfly. I'd come in every morning and print a bunch. that would be waiting in a queue from people online the night before. their idea was a bit early. and they did not pursue it. Shutterfly now runs up by you, Rando, and consider working there lol it was during those years My raptor buddies were beneficial. that machine was SLLLLOW. and took forever to warm up. Did the most goofing off then lol
Eventually got rid of that machine, SOOOO expensive to operate. In 2010 they bought the Xerox iteration of that platform, i was in programming at the time.. Its way more suited to our lower quality higher volume stuff. I had assumed when we got it, I would go to training, theres a ton of maintenance and repairs you need to know to stay running. But the boss of graphic arts and programming took himself, selfishly. while he was gone, I made a 50$ bet id still end up running it. 2 weeks after he came back, he could not figure out how to pull variable sheets from different drawers. think book, then book cover.... i came over, figured it out. won my bet.
Day 3, during our HUGE company merger, I had to tear apart a color unit, completely untrained. been here ever since. Shutterfly has 24 of these "IGen" machines.
we have a bunch of high speed presses. and 3 new roll fed color digital presses(we were the first to get them) and they ferk up all the time. SO along with my regular work, i re do their work... still at it.
