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Jan 16, 2020
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RalphWiggam

Bio page: RalphWiggam
Joined: Feb 3, 2005
Last login: May 24, 2024
Total posts: 33,106 (2,170 FO)

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Messages

Author

Time

How did you end up in your field?

paulb

1/16/20 10:21am

RE: How did you end up in your field?

Pete

1/16/20 10:22am

Humanities degree. Can’t do anything with that, but go to law school.

Jay Rick

1/16/20 10:22am

Me too.

RalphWiggam

1/16/20 10:28am

My wife has an English degree from BYU and earns 200K in tech.

ReyOso

1/16/20 10:30am

RE: My wife has an English degree from BYU and earns 200K in tech.

byuguns55

1/16/20 11:16am

I'm a U grad. I only pump up her BYU degree under duress. 😉

ReyOso

1/16/20 1:28pm

200k? Is she single?

Santos L. Halper

1/16/20 11:22am

I don’t know anything about tech! Or about the humanities! And just barely law.

Jay Rick

1/16/20 12:05pm

Does she want to adopt an adult son?

Archaea

1/16/20 1:42pm

I made a decision, pursued it, and acheived it.

SJS

1/16/20 10:22am

Nice. I never studied hard enough to do that.

paulb

1/16/20 10:24am

I didn’t listed to stupid college guidance counselors

Pretorian

1/16/20 10:47am

I thought I would drive trains. I was wrong. Too much work to switch at that point.

Ragnar Danneskjold

1/16/20 10:23am

Not sure. I just woke up naked in the field that day. I'm pretty sure it was aliens, but I have no memory of it.

Byron McNertney

1/16/20 10:23am

😂😂😂 Good one

ByuImaginesDragons

1/16/20 11:37pm

Highly calculated based on my strengths and the job market at the time

deejo

1/16/20 10:23am

I did this too and only last 3 years after graduation before I left the field.

ReyOso

1/16/20 10:30am

That’s what I did,

Pretorian

1/16/20 10:49am

I walked into it. I was chasing rabbits in my yard.

TerribleOpinionsGuy

1/16/20 10:23am

ROTC scholarship out of high school...was only going to stay in for 4 years

byuguns55

1/16/20 10:23am

Chosen field was dead in the water, fell back to the industry I worked in while

SandYFan

1/16/20 10:24am

Picked a major that made decent money, stuck with it, took the best

JuicyJam

1/16/20 10:25am

Moved to a small town without a lot of jobs that I liked. So I found something I

crack

1/16/20 10:25am

What do you do?

Santos L. Halper

1/16/20 10:26am

Day Trading

crack

1/16/20 10:26am

You moved without a job? That's interesting

TNT

1/16/20 10:26am

I was digging holes, welding, mixing cement, not making livable money. Mid 20's.

Backcountry

1/16/20 10:26am

Good on you man...early congrats!

byuguns55

1/16/20 10:26am

Thank you!

Backcountry

1/16/20 10:27am

I was a multimedia developer, graduated with my degree in CS. One day Macromedia

MacroCougar

1/17/20 7:07am

I thought pharmacy was a good field before my mission. Told people for 2 years

WhirleyPop

1/16/20 10:26am

RC Airplanes. Got one when I was 12. Developed a passion for aviation.

Busting Coveys

1/16/20 10:27am

Failed at what I planned to do, ended up where I am.

Santos L. Halper

1/16/20 10:27am

The most beautiful girl in high school.

bluecheese

1/16/20 10:30am

And Brenda P.? How did that pan out?

fldnstrm

1/16/20 10:42am

Ha! Barely had the guts to even talk to her. But man, she was great to look at.

bluecheese

1/16/20 10:47am

That is funny, I can relate! I love that you shared that 😁

Pretorian

1/17/20 11:27am

Well, when I failed to win the Heisman or the Wooden award I figured the

RalphWiggam

1/16/20 10:30am

I needed health insurance

byujag

1/16/20 10:31am

Recruited while at college and took it to avoid student debt, then realized I

vagabonder

1/16/20 10:35am

God, seriously. A colleague pointed out the degree to me, but it just felt right

runnincoug

1/16/20 10:41am

It's amazing how differently life turns out than what we expected in our youth

Backcountry

1/16/20 10:43am

As a 16 year old kid, I needed a hot girl to lead me to my life's calling.

bluecheese

1/16/20 11:21am

Dad was an accounting professor, I planned on being an accounting professor, but

Fdnman

1/16/20 10:42am

Pete. Most days I’m not sure if I appreciate or hate him.

Cougar Jazz Fan

1/16/20 10:46am

Hated what I was doing. Decided to make a change. Massive amounts of luck...

Homercles

1/16/20 11:04am

I knew from the time I about 13 or 14 that I wanted to be a Civil Engineer. After 1 1/2 years of college I went on a

Real G Man

1/16/20 11:41am

I was working for the Navy and really wanted to look at the reactors on a sub or

Chadillac

1/16/20 12:20pm

My son got a job at a naval base as a mechanical engineer and works on the

Fdnman

1/16/20 12:29pm

I was turned down for the job of trust fund beneficiary

Archaea

1/16/20 1:44pm

Planning to be a doctor

sanitarium

1/16/20 2:03pm

*No ragrets

WDaddy

1/17/20 4:28am

I had a family friend with a dog who was taking it to a groomer, and they saw

ByuImaginesDragons

1/16/20 11:35pm

Swore I would only be an exotic dancer until I graduated but the money

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