In a world, where I was still figuring out what career path to take, I was going to community college for a general studies degree with hopes to have figured it all out and transfer to the local university and get a bachelor's degree. Then one dark, sunless night, I had a dream that I was in a helicopter cockpit flying over a cityscape. Upon awakening I couldn't stop thinking how great it was. Started thinking back to how when I was a kid I thought it would be so cool to be a fighter pilot or go to space. Thought "well to fly helicopters you probably have to join the military," did a search, found out there are vocational schools! "OK but there are probably only like two in the country," did a search, "wow they're all over and a couple are even close by." I did an intro flight and have been hooked on helicopters since that first pickup into a hover.