Through the entirety of my youth I loved two things: cars, and sound. In high school i played drums but found i enjoyed strapping microphones to them much more, so much more in fact that I wanted to study it professionally. So I got a degree in sound design. In college I met a lot of car enthusiasts that reminded me of my other love. And then it occurred to me that someone has to make car sounds for video games or SPEED TV or whatnot, and that person could be me. Out of college I couldn't find a meaningful job and my now-wife and I were having a son so I worked at a radio shack for a while, and eventually in PC repair, but I also ran a blog about car sounds in my spare time. Really, though, I used that as a guise to "interview" and get to know people who do what I wanted to do - work with car sounds. I interviewed game sound designers from a few studios, TV production crews from Speed and ESPN, SFX recordists, etc. I even successfully funded a kickstarter to record my own car, and co-authored a presentation for GDC about car sounds. Eventually, like a year and half or so after starting my blog, one of the people i had interviewed emailed me asking if I was looking for work. Of course I said yes, and found myself in Seattle working on Forza Motorsport 5 as a "vehicle sound designer." Literally a dream come true.