Doing a report for one of my classes in
school, I was assigned the topic of industrial ovens. I mean, what is that? I
didn’t know and it sounded boring – I didn’t want to know. A quick search
through the internet confirmed my fear: not just boring; very boring.
Industrial ovens didn’t even have anything to do with baking. I was beyond
bummed.
Fortunately or unfortunately, I am a very
motivated student, so I plodded forward and decided to learn more in the least
boring way I knew how: talking to a person. I looked up a fairly nearby
industrial oven manufacturer and found Perceptive Industries.
They’re very close by – I didn’t even know that we had a manufacturer that
close! Anyhow, I asked if I could speak to one of their engineers and I was
offered a chance to come in and see their business.
When I first got there, it seemed just as
boring as I had suspected. But as I was talking to one of the engineers, I
actually started getting really interested. He showed me around, teaching me
about draw ovens, stress relieving ovens, industrial conveyor ovens, and what
felt like a million different kinds of ovens that I had never even heard of
before.
By the end of it, I was actually fascinated
and I wanted to learn more. My class was even kind of interested, too, when I
presented the report and I got an A on it!
I’m going to college to be an engineer,
myself, next year. Though I had been thinking communications engineering, I
might consider a change in track after what I learned from Perceptive Industries.
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