>> I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do.
When I -- by the time that I left the military, I certainly had a lot of engineering experience.
You know, four years of hands-on, six years total, engineering experience.
But I think I decided at that point that I had had enough of engineering.
Even though I was -- it was something that I was good at I left the Navy in -- in --
as a supervisor of a nuclear power plant but really just didn't want to go back to it.
So, I decided to go back to school.
And went to the University of Oklahoma.
And I was studying film for a year.
When that money ran out, I came out to the East Coast because a -- a shipmate --
a former shipmate had a nice place for me to --
to join a power plant, not a nuclear power plant but a power plant out here.
And once I got here, I eventually found myself to a defense contractor where I was able
to combine my defense experience with my filmmaking background.
And for seven years, I made videos for various defense department agencies.
But during that time, I realized that I was bored with that too
so I decided I better finish my degree first.
Contacted Regents College at -- known at the time,
that I had heard about while I was in the military.
That degree in my hand was the -- the most recent.
Many doors opened to me in my life.
But that -- that was probably the biggest door that opened up.