 My senior year of high school, I was pretty well dead set on becoming a natural resources game warden for the state of Wisconsin. So I sent in my application for a university and I was pretty excited. I was pretty happy. It started during COVID. The bulk of my classes were online. I didn't have any physical connections with my professors or other students. It was difficult to become one-on-one with anyone. Being in a classroom with two, three, four hundred people at a time, you know, you raise your hand and ask a question and the professor says, yeah, you in the back row. You could be there for four years and they're never going to know your name. I was working full-time during all of this and I realized that I wanted to work at my job more than I wanted to do anything with school. Ever since I was a little kid I loved turning wrenches. I loved working with my hands. I feel like I learned better when I work with my hands and I learned a lot more in six years of working for this shop than I did in three years at a university trying to learn something new. So I just decided that I was going to take the information that I already had, the passions that I had towards working at a diesel shop and I transitioned to NTC and it's been a blast ever since. I not only want to bring K-12 students here and introduce them to the wonderful people that I've met here but I also want to take them to the buildings that their desired field is in. But I not only want to give students tours of the campus, I also would like to help arrange tours of places that they could potentially work at. That's kind of the message that I want to get out to a lot of students is if what you're doing isn't what you truly want, get out of it. You shouldn't ever wake up in the morning and go, it's time to go to work. You know, you should actually feel a little bit of motivation about what you do and because of the decision that I made with transferring to NTC I have pretty much guaranteed that that's going to be the rest of my life.