At first, I wanted to be a car designer. Right? I mean, who doesn’t want to be a car designer? Then, I did a semester in car design. That alone would have cured that bug but I also spoke with a junior designer at Ford that semester too. She told me she had designed steering wheels for 18 months. She drew countless circles. I can’t imagine.
In school, I did find medical devices to be interesting. There is a lot to learn, a process I enjoy. I did several surgical projects at the time.
My first gig out of school was a lot of farm equipment.
My second gig happened to be with a firm that did medical devices. Purely blind luck I saw the job, applied to the job and got the job. Never once did a surgical device there.
Learning the quality system for medical devices is unique and valuable. It makes me marketable and able to have my next job based more on experience than dumb luck.
Still waiting to do a surgical product, but the chances are getting better.