I'm a huge book wonk, and enjoy swimming, the outdoors in general, home brewing, travel, and cooking/bbq.My goals, to start, at least:Never stop learningNetwork - Partner - Develop relationships in the areaIncome - Income - IncomeDeveloping systems and working on time managementRehab jobs on the side to add to the ability to produce #3"Retire" from my day job by 40I'm also quite interested in personal finance topics, as well as harnessing the power of technology and data to make quick decisions; although I generally abhor black boxes.

TX is booming, oil, technology, healthcare and massive population growth here!

This may limit your growth rate in the short term when the market is strong, but will save you when the market is soft.Generally engineers have sound personal finance since they have decent, steady, well paid jobs and not extravagant spending/tastes (except maybe when it comes to technology)Possible Disadvantages:You will tend to over analyze everything and want to understand every minute detail before taking any actionYou may want or expect things to be "black and white" and have trouble operating with ambiguity and in the "grey area".

I have sold 2 technology companies in the past.

I desire to move faster and get more done through technology and automation, I do not want just a pretty dressed up version of GOOLGE SHEETS that requires to me go in and manually tweak every single bit of content.

Technology allows us to collaborate seamlessly with one another.

This included being a key member of the city's plans regarding infrastructure improvements to the area, local redevelopment of old properties, and I personally spearheaded a $250,000 technology grant for the neighborhood from the city and local foundations.  

Now, 10 years late, the youngest baby boomers are turning 60 and the ones who are retirement age have been slow to leave the workforce.There will be an impact when the baby boomer generation fully retires and again when they pass away, but I don't know if that means despair for those of us remaining.With the technological changes where the very core of how we work is changing (people working remote for example and less reliance on a motor vehicle), I think it's really hard to predict doom and gloom.Yes, we will have recessions, but I doubt anything close to what compares to 2008. 

Top technology.  

I've considered some technological improvements for a laundry as well, but I'd need some start up scratch for patents, and development, which could also come from the basic laundromat acquired.