Career Detour: Engineer to Dental Hygienist

Fifty Years - Two Careers

Thinking of a career change? 30% of the American workforce does it yearly, and job losses during a pandemic have made it even more likely.

Take a journey with the author and watch a kid interested in science, math, biology, and medicine enter a career in mechanical engineering, designing computers at IBM Corporation. A quarter century later in the early 1990s, portions of the computer industry underwent a major upheaval, causing the author to seriously investigate a...