Work in the fashion industry as a technical designer - my specialty is jeanswear. Went back to school a few years ago to study aerospace engineering with the goal of designing Mars space suits - but linear algebra was my nemesis. Will have to settle for designing Mars colonists' blue jeans!
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think it is highly probable that extraterrestrial (and intelligent) life exists. Drake Equation: R*Fp*Ne*Fl*Fi*Fc*L = N
We've really only just begun to look, so it may be decades before we discover it. A systematic search such as SETI@home is the most likely way we're going to find a signal. And if they want us to find them, they'll make it easy for us.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.