When I was leaving the Marines after spending 27 years in uniform I wasn't exactly sure what came next. My time in the military had prepared me for many things, ranging from how to stand at attention to how to conduct a patrol in insurgent territory. What it didn't really prepare me for, however, was what to do when for the last time I hung up the cloth of the nation and started over again as a civilian. As I thought about the possibilities that I could pursue my mind wandered all over, but one place that it did not linger was in the medical device industry. Not because it is unattractive, but because my perception was that the people in it were all highly educated engineers and scientists who wore white coats and worked in laboratories all day. Since I don't have an advanced degree in one of the STEM fields I figured that there was no place in such an environment for me. I was not alone in my perceptions, either. Of all the transitioning veterans that I knew, not a single one looked at the medical technology or medical device industries as a place where they could work.
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