Why I Wanted to Be a Tech

Due to my great affinity for science at a very young age and my rapacious curiosity for almost all things mechanical and technological, radiologic technologist was an easy choice for the career to which I am best suited.
Ever since I can remember I have been greatly drawn toward science; as a hobby and academically. I know most young kids are filled with scads of questions about the world around them and things they don’t understand. But when I was a child I was so filled with curiosity that my parents bought me Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts. Most of the contents were over my head at the time but it did provide me with a great deal of inspiration. My obsession soon became animals; including humans. Seeing this, my parents signed me up for this amazing zoological series of magazines and index cards. I remember waiting for each monthly shipment of new index cards to put into my special green collector case like it was Christmas. This interest in animals soon developed into a pattern for me at school, whereas I would come home with straight A’s in my science classes; all others stagnated in the B minus to C range. In high school my fascination with animals abated and I became increasingly focused on the human body.   Big surprise I know, a boy in high school fascinated with the human body. But it was more than that; I was enamored with the structure and function. This deep desire to learn how the human body works led me to an Allied Health profession; shallow pockets unfortunately prevented me from going to medical school.

In addition to supporting my desire to learn about animals; my parents had to put up with a very annoying habit of mine. I was one of those kids who needed to know how the insides of something worked. Toy or appliance, it didn’t matter, if it had screws holding it together sooner or later I was going to take it apart. My parents, God bless them, tried all manner of tactics to dissuade me from disassembling functional items. They bought me...