Nathan Hutchinson
03-29-10
Darrow
English 101
Topic Proposal
My current challenge is working on a degree in Civil Engineering. This is what comes naturally to me, and has run through my veins since the day I was born. As a child I spent many summers with my grandparents while my mother was finishing her Masters at NAU. Grandfather used to go to the lumber yard and buy wood and nails so that when I arrived I had something to keep me busy for the summer. Since those young days I have worked most construction trades and have been a foreman for the past six years. The every-day challenge of the work place has been replaced by the monotony of repetition. It is time for a new challenge, and this challenge lies in engineering. The desire to build a bridge or a skyscraper has been taunting me for years and now it’s time to make my move. The burning mental challenges as well as complex mathematical equations that are constantly driving a person to the limits of structure design. This is what attracts me to this profession as well as the personal challenge of the demanding course work. As I explore this career through the assignment, I am excited to be able to interview people and research this profession which has been calling me for years.
Some days go by when you really feel that you have a purpose in life, well mine is engineering. For years I sat in a profession not sure which direction I should go. But always in the back of my head I knew that what I was doing was just another job, not my chosen career path. One day I woke and just knew, it was really that simple. Time to go back to school, I love to build and I love math, engineering it is!
