List of all jobs I’ve had in chronological order:

-Assistant MMA instructor (part time)
-Deli clerk
-Industrial automation intern
-College resident assistant (part-time)
-Forum administrator (part-time)
-Software intern*
-Electrical engineer*
-Equity analyst/blogger (part-time)
-Freelance finance writer (part-time)
-Lead electrical engineer*
-Engineering procurement/finance lead*
-Facility engineering/finance manager*
-Macro analyst / talking head
-Side gigs: board director, VC fund adviser, author

*These ones were all for the same aviation employer

When I was entering college, my initial goal was to work in space-related electronic systems or in solar energy systems. As I learned more about them and as the Great Recession hit, I ended up shifting into aviation kind of randomly, but liked it a lot for about a decade.

Out of all of the jobs, the most surprising to me was “talking head”. That was certainly never really part of my toolkit and just kind of happened somehow.