Career path

I have worked my whole life to have a job in space engineering of some sort, but along the way I have worked in nuclear fusion, I have worked in artificial intelligence, I have worked in factory automation, and the globalisation of business. I have worked on the development of the computer interface, now I finally have my job working in the international space programme, co-ordinating some of the technical work on the international space station. But I have aimed for a career in technology since I was six years old. I decided then to get a PhD in rocket science, and did that at Cal Tech and later at the University of Rochester where I finished my degrees, and have aimed for my whole life to be doing what I am doing. I have always been good at doing lots of little things approximately well, and have never been a deep specialist in anything. So I am systems integrator, I am a futurist, I look sort of side to side across all of technology, and I am one of these few people that actually gets to work in almost every technical discipline at once. It’s a very rewarding career, I enjoy it a lot, and of course now I write books and I lecture around the world in addition to my day job. The government pays me to work on the space programme, but this is actually my outside business. The US government has nothing to do with why I am in New Zealand.