Some day I want to get away from working my corporate job. Even though it pays pretty well, I get two good bonuses per year and the benefits are great, I feel like I die a little bit each day that I spend there sitting at a desk under fluorescent lights in a room tomb with no windows. I spend very little time designing and it seems I have to spend more and more time playing the game of corporate politics with management who has no idea what's going on in their own dept. They're too busy with all the cross function team activities they create, special initiatives which never lead anywhere, and all the other dog and pony show crap that takes away from us doing what we're actually supposed to do (design and build machinery). But enough ranting about my corporate hell...

I remember back in the early 2000's when AutoCAD was the software of choice for engineers and it was less user-friendly back then. I'm a mechanical designer and I usually use Solidworks to design machinery. It's amazing to me that it all used to be by pencil and paper on a drafting board.

That's inspiring to me to see others who wanted more than to work under someone else for their whole lives and have gone out on their own to create their own destiny. My hat is off to you.