I used to be a design engineer at a great 4x4 RV manufacturer.

Now I'm a graphic artist, for about the next 5 hours. Been doing it for 5 years, about to lose my job today. I'm extremely underpaid for my position and the work I've done for this company and I finally put up a stink about it and they didn't like it. I've always known I wasn't gonna be here for 20 years, but it still sucks to lose a job, almost as being over-utilized and underpaid.

Well, meeting went ok. Still a graphic artist for the next few months anyway, just to help them out with their super busy time. After that, all bets are off.

I learned AutoCAD in DOS when I was in college because my professor didn't trust Windows 3.1.

When I got promoted to Design Engineer at the 4x4 RV manufacturer many years later, they had SolidWorks 2005. I had to teach myself how to use it as I was the only engineer there. SolidWorks has a fantastic built-in tutorial for a lot of the basic stuff and within a month I was up and running and designing parts. I love SolidWorks, always will.

I don't remember what version it was off-hand, but I had the class in '93, if that helps. I remember him saying that he didn't fully trust the power of most Windows 3.1 machines and that if we learned it in DOS, making the switch to Windows would be way easier than the other way around. I'm sure he was right.