Mind if I ask what that is?

Not at all! It is a Long story as most people's lives are. But to get to the point, I moved from California to Kentucky and for the first time saw up close and personally what a poor education system looks like. I do Astronomy outreach in my spare time now to help spark curiosity about the wonders of life and the universe amongst people who have had that joy of learning beaten out of them (sometimes literally with rod and belt) . Saturn viewing season is coming up and there is no greater joy than to watch someone's face have that "OH SHIT" look when they see Saturn and its moons through the eyepiece of a telescope for the first time. People looking at Jupiter, and realizing that they were seeing with their eyes what they had only see in pictures, then asking questions is fun as well. It's going to kinda suck this fall as there won't be any planets out, and I'm going to buy some filters so that I can show some other stuff through the light pollution here when I can't show Mars and Saturn later in the year.

Work pays the bills, and fortunately I am in a place where I love the work and love the people I work with, but outreach is what I see myself doing for a while onwards.