The HVAC corp was paying me like $60K a year back then, which is pretty good money in today’s world, but all of the heating and cooling system work in the world didn’t interest me anymore and I had to get out of it.
I was talking about how I left my corporate job back in November of 1999 and how happy I am for doing it. I was working as a mechanical engineer building medical equipment for a big company and I was tired of working in such an environment. You had a keycard to get into the locked building with no windows and it bordered the feeling of a prison when I was inside. You couldn’t see out at all and when you finally left for the day it wasn’t daytime anymore. I’d get home at 7pm to my air conditioned lonely home and would crash next to my a/c system from exhaustion after a long day in the office. I did that for seven years and finally told myself no more and left it behind me forever. The HVAC corp was paying me like $60K a year back then, which is pretty good money in today’s world, but all of the heating and cooling system work in the world didn’t interest me anymore and I had to get out of it. That was almost 24 years ago and I am so happy I got out of it when I still could because a lot of my friends are still stuck in their office jobs. The only thing I liked was designing ductwork for the large commercial HVAC equipment that we built, but most of the time I was in meetings or writing reports for the big boss. My life is a lot different now being a musician and a part time writer overseas, wow.