Career Choices. What to do!?

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[QUOTE=LowchevyII;288012]I talked with the high performance engineer at Toyo last month, and its not really what i thought. He is more of just a trend spotter. He told Japan that america needs drag radials, so their engineers came up with something. He told Japan that they needed tires for drifting so they came up with something. Not really what i was hoping to see. Thought it was going be a little more hands on, not relaying info.[QUOTE]

I'll probably get flamed for this and normally wouldn't put in my 2 cents but what the hell. My reposnse to your experience above is unfortunately this country is full of people who don't "make" anything. However, communities like this are full of people with great talents who deserve to be building (and in many cases probably are but I can't guess how many talented folks aren't doing their dream job because it doesn't seem to exist) the products we USE in this country and get paid well for it - guys/gals just like you. You like cars, want to physically engineer something and have a brain for business ... start a car company. Far as I can tell, there aren't any left here. I dunno maybe that's crazy, but Henry Ford was probably crazy too. I guess my post can be shortened to why not make the job you want? Yeah I'm ignoring the money part. Sometimes you get lucky and produce something the world needs and make money doing it. Sometimes you do it cause you love it and only a few people need it.