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2 are false I never rode in a motocross and never flew a plane.

I did  work for a chemical company making experimental chemicals .from smaller 50 gallon vessels to 2500 gallon vessels. We made small batches of chemicals. Many were experimental.

A chemical engineering would give us a recipe of sorts and we followed it. Much like a cook would only we were often using deadly chemicals. If was for a small company here in florida.some times it took days for a compound to develope waiting for a peak .when i first started I was washing barrels out that contained waste products. I had to wear a rubber suit with oxygen tanks  to foll some barrels with waste to be shipped and worked my way up the ladder till I was allowed to work on the

Indeed its easy to make a mistake by combining the wrong chemicals or letting a reaction get out of control. I was looking for a entry level job that had the possibility of  learning new skills and bettering myself and sadly when you do not have a good education or skill sets you either break your back to make a dollar or put your self a at risk . I choose risk . It ended up advancing me into the areo space industry . I was familiar with chemicals and reactions scientific measuring devices . So I saw a ass for a company at the 45 th sparce air wing I had worked in a nuke plant  in surry Virginia as a painter top helper that had got me a security clearance the job at the chemical plant showed I ghad experience with chemicals and scientific eqt . I was hired to work in the feild at launch pad 41 working on the eelv and I eventually became the cleanroom supervisor. I worked on the shuttle program the eelv and several smaller projects for Boeing and Rockwell international .

At one point after 911 they wanted the schedules advances and we were working 70 to 80 hours a week . I made good money back then.

I had experience working with acids from the chemical plant and mixing chemicals and controlling reactions . They started me out at 15.00 a hour  and it went up from then