Mark Hotz:  

After high school I didn't know what I was doing, or what I wanted to do (quelle surprise). Solution: I went back to school :-/. I ran across a friend from high school at that time who was working a coop type job through university. His job was much nicer than my job, so I thought that perhaps I should try this university thing. My philosophy at the time was: "it certainly couldn't hurt". I ended up enrolling at SFU....and four years later I had completed a BA, majoring in Archaeology of all things :-/. I figured out while attending SFU that at the BA level it's not what you learn, but how you learn it that matters. So invest in something interesting, and then enjoy the ride. I then moved to Ottawa to experience what living in another part of Canada would be like....it didn't take long to become disillusioned with the "centre of the universe mentality" that most central Canadians seem to boast. It also became quite apparent that one needed to learn French if one wanted to survive in that part of Canada....so I did a year of language training at the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi (UQAC)...it didn't help. Subsequent job interviewers in the Ottawa region were telling me that my "accent" wasn't good enough to work in Ottawa (I kid you not). That's when I got the message and then left to return home, all the while wondering how long it will take before Quebec separates from the rest of Canada :-). I returned to BC and decided that I needed some technical training to boost my career potential...so I enrolled in the BCIT Geographic Information Systems Technology program....and eventually completed an Advanced Diploma through Engineering Technology. This led to immediate employment...and I'm ...Expand for more