We have the cars, what about the occupations of Hummer owners!

[JJ]

Mike97ZJ - I won't speak for Patrick, but if you're interested in going into mechanical engineering at an even smaller scale, check out the world of microsystems. Just type in microsystems or MEMS on your search engine and explore the world to come. Designing mechanical systems that have already improved the driving safety of our vehicles (airbags, skid control) and are being developed to improve our health (in-body diagnostic and surgical tools). This isn't really hands-on (other than at the design station) due to the small size of these systems, less than the diameter of a human hair and some on the order of the size of a red blood cell. Its cool stuff though and certainly high impact technology. In any case, the world can always use another motivated engineer.

JJ