--------I entered college for a year after highschool.
Then went into the navy for 4 years. At the end of my enlistment, I went back to college and graduated with a BS in electrical engineering. I then entered the graduate school and graduated the following year with a MS also in elec. engr.
On graduation I went to work at an advanced electronics development center. Within a year, my first boss discovered that I was a pretty good mathematician. I got tired of that after 18 years of solving the same kind of problem over and over, and switched disciplines to become a computer programmer. I finish my career as a programmer.