A Cheesy First Blog

Around this time last year, I started taking classes to get my MBA. I jumped in fully and totally ready to get my concentration for my MBA in Finance, because I’m a numbers geek and wanted to learn more about…. well finance I guess! I met a ton of awesome people and professors on the way! And no, I am not saying professors aren’t people, but still. One professor inspired me to start this website instead of dealing with a middle man distributor. Another, suggested I start a blog. Both these professors helped me come a long way over the past year, and the one that suggested I start a blog is also the one that helped inspire me to switch my concentration to leadership over finance as well.

So. Here I am, working on my first blog post, EVER. I have no idea how this is going to go, nor what I’m doing, but here we go! While the whole obsession with making stuff could really go back to a kid being addicted to Legos growing up, or it could be the fact that for 9 years my job was literally making things that made things, it really didn’t hit me until I built my first 3D printer. Having a previous hobby of 3D design and CAD work, ideas became reality at the push of a button, after some tinkering of course. This was the start of a problem. The next thing I knew, I’m buying, building, and selling 3D printers trying to optimize the best way to melt the massive amount of spools of plastic I’ve bought, all going into things like little mini tugboats and wall hangers I made for my garage. Holy cow the possibilities of these printers! Then, you look at the design of the printer and think “wow, this whole design could be used in tons of applications!” and you realize that this is how many CNC routers and Laser Cutters are made, and they are all relatively similar to operate! What a horrible (for the wallet) realization! Next thing you know you’re sitting around making desk lights for your friends and selling them on the internet. Weird right?