My current 8-5 is a working for a leading Robotic welding company( goal is to end that soon)!. 

Have started applying online on Monster, Careerbuilder, etc but also wanted to give the BP forum a shot.

I feel like that's a whole other monster to tackle and I am trying my best not to overwhelm myself and get discouraged.Definitely let me know if that is a completely wrong way of thinking or if you have any other suggestions on getting started or which direction I should be going!

It's a monster post, but read it when you have some time.

I enjoy fishing for monster bass in the farm ponds and floating down the Boyer River on inner tubes. 

I'm an robotics engineer by trade, having worked at NASA and no a spinoff startup.

Hello everyone, my name is Jason Slater and I'm a robotics engineer in the Boston area.

@Michael Bowman works in the Charlotte area, so he might be able to provide some info about that end of NCGreensboro is third most likely city to lose jobs to robots, so I wouldn't go there  :)http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/morning_call/2016/02/reportraleigh-among-top-cities-with-jobs-least.html#i1

Some lenders will "sort of" consider it kinda like a refi if that lender/underwriter has a program to track accepted rent payments via servicing over the lease option time frame, but that would have to be something you set up up front with the seller/buyer, and you'd have to find a lender that has a program like that (I've heard about mumblings that this exists, but I've yet to speak to a lender that really offers this - I think this sort of program may actually be like the mumblings of the loch ness monster, or big foot - doesn't actually exist in the wild, but people still talk about it as if it does).

Wholesaling is the big scary monster under my bed in RE for me.