Grad profile: Dan Dupuis (Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, 2008)
From the time he was a young boy, Dan Dupuis has dreamed of working with airplanes. However while growing up, the high cost of earning a pilot’s license was prohibitive for his family.
After graduating high school and beginning to work, it didn’t look like Dupuis’s dream would be possible.
“I got married pretty young,” he says, which made it difficult to stop working and begin studying for a career change.
It wasn’t until someone connected with Red River College asked Dupuis about what he would consider his dream job to be, that things started to come together.
Dupuis didn’t hesitate. “I answered that my dream job would to be to work with aircraft.”
Shortly thereafter, in 2007, Dupuis began his studies at Red River College. He enrolled in the Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Diploma program.
Back in elementary and high school, Dupuis was not a strong student, and found studying frustrating. “I didn’t read very well,” he says. “I didn’t like the kind of school work we did.”
However, for Dupuis, studying something that he was passionate about made all the difference. Read More →