One conversation that changed everything
After dropping out of Ohio State with a declared major in aerospace engineering, our founder, Meagan, chose a very arbitrary career path: film. After 12 years working on big-budget movies in Hollywood, Meagan decided to go back to college and finish her engineering degree, certain this next chapter would finally feel right.
While applying to schools, Meagan had the great and life-altering fortune of speaking with an aerospace engineer whose story was similar to her own. This engineer had recently completed her degree at Georgia Tech and was working full-time at a great company. However, it turned out that the day-to-day life of an aerospace engineer was not at all what Meagan had dreamed of or envisioned.
That’s when it hit her: Meagan was about to set out on an enormous, life-changing journey, go into debt again, spend another four years in college — yet she had no idea what an aerospace engineer actually does. She’d simply romanticized the job in her mind and imagined it would be everything she felt was missing in her film career.
Countless people have dedicated years of their lives and accrued significant debt pursuing a “dream job” that turns out to be the wrong fit entirely. People are so discontented with the work they do that it negatively affects their mood, their lives, and the lives of those around them.
