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I was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I completed my high school diploma and university degrees in physics and mechanical engineering. I have always been a visual artist and have been focusing mostly on painting in acrylics. I also love animals and have been riding horses since I was young. I used my love of horses to train and sell show jumpers to pay for my first university degree. At the present I don´t own any horses due to my future plans to live out of the country but I do own two Senegal parrots, Paulo and Emerson. Paulo is very outgoing and Emerson is the exact opposite. I am not married, yet (I´m a late bloomer, still looking for the right one) and have no children.
I´ve worked a variety of entry-level jobs since I was 14 (mostly to help pay for the hayburners): stable hand, restaurant work, retail (pet shop), house painter, deli. After graduation from university I´ve worked in engineering and more specifically the energy industry. However, after about 8 years of this type of work I was struggling to find meaning in what I was doing. I took two years off and bred and boarded dogs (I still have investments in some of my best boston terriers but they live in friend´s homes). It didn´t really work out, I lost a fair amount of money on it as well as being so busy that I seldom had the time to travel or even go out for the day. I closed the business and returned to my home town to do some soul searching and figure out what really was important for me in my life. I´ve come to the following conclusions: when I was growing up I always wanted to be an MD, career significance is very important to me, I love anything creative, especially art, writing, and interior design, I love animals (but I am not all that enchanted with current veterinary medicine), I love rural life and getting by with less in an environmentally considerate way. So after summing these things up, I´m going to be applying for medical school in the Fall (which will mean some serious frugal living!); once I graduate I´d like to work for an under-serviced rural population and work on my creative pursuits part time.

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