Episode 3: From Nanny to Rocket Scientist w/Melanie Wullaert

Melanie started engineering school in her early 30s after over a decade of not knowing what she wanted to do with her life. ⁣ ⁣ Originally, her goal was to tour with bands. She booked and managed small tours in Europe in her early 20s and progressed to becoming an audio engineer in her late 20s, but never managed to break into the industry enough to make a living. ⁣ ⁣ Took her another 5-ish years to find the confidence and strength to start taking pre-engineering night classes at Seattle community colleges while holding down nanny day jobs so she could pay rent and bills to survive. ⁣ ⁣ "I was never good at math or physics or any other STEM class back in school, so me trying to go for an ME degree was an absolutely ludicrous idea. Turns out, I am not as bad at it as I thought!" ⁣ ⁣ She was accepted into the University of Washington's Mechanical engineering department in Fall of 2015, got a NASA internship at NASA MSCF in the summer of 2017 and was promptly hired by Virgin orbit after graduation to become a Structural Dynamics Engineer for Launcher One. ⁣ ⁣ Only a short while after that, she moved back home to Seattle to work for Blue origin on their New Glenn Rocket. ⁣ ⁣ you can learn more about her on Facebook/Instagram under @2inkfinityandbeyond and Twitter under @Mel2Inkfinity, as she has started sharing her journey with the world. Follow @bridgesintech on your favorite social media platform.