#1 reason ? I was going to put a poll , but I thought it would be more interesting with the # of responses and the ensuing debate. For me" it was the job prospects are tremendous ". It is increasing leaps and bounds in my field since early 2000's.
Career trajectory was to become a software designer because I was good at it and I liked it. Bottom fell out of that industry just as I was graduating from college and I ended up in the contractor engineering business (for plants and refineries) because I knew someone. It's worked out pretty well for me so far.
Didn't choose really. It just happened. One day my playing around turned into a job and that turned into a career. Totally unexpected.
Couldn't keep a strong pimp hand, bottom b****es got outta control. Took the logical next step..... went corporate world.
I teach special ed in public schools because I love being the only guy at baby showers AT WORK once a month.
I saw Friday The 13th pt. 7 - Jason Takes Manhatten. One of the guys that got killed was a long-haired guy with a video camera trying to make a music video. I thought "that looks cool..I want to do that". Went to college the next year as a Radio/TV/Film major. Seriously.
I didn't want to grow up, but I couldn't be a Toys-R-Us kid forever... (P.S.) Being called BamBam still keeps me connected with my early formative years. ....... ....... .......
I wanted to be a male prostitute for young, hot, lonely college women. Unfortunately, I could not even get one client. My backup plan was to be somewhere in the IT world and that worked ok
Y2K. Seriously. I was on track to be an engineer and was working as a CAD designer and going to school. Then ClutchFan'er Harrisment's brother graduated college and got a job as a technology recruiter in 1999. He got Harrisment, me and several of our friends jobs doing Y2K updating and PC roll-outs making decent money. I quit school, and the rest is history. Best part is... Y2K didn't do a damn thing, but we all made a lot of money because of it.
