My name is Greg Dickert. I’m 26 years old and originally from Baltimore, MD but currently live in the Dayton, OH area. I’ve been immensely blessed to have grown up in an awesome family!
In my free time I love to spend my time outdoors and not indoors. I love nature and exploring God’s creation pretending that I’m the first one to discover some place. I also have a passion for all things cars and motorcycles. I love working on, fixing, and modifying them. I love new technologies and innovation and learning about how things work. I’ll take every chance I get to get away from everyday life and go adventure seeking such as: exploring, hiking, off-roading, trail riding, shooting, fishing, etc. Some call it redneck, I call it being cool. I do love most sports specifically: baseball, volleyball, ultimate Frisbee, racquetball, soccer, and football. I am a people person despite not being the most outgoing individual. I have an unnatural love for cutting grass too.
I’ve grown up always being curious about how things worked and wondering what would happen if this… or that… would happen etc. I can remember taking and old black and white TV apart when I was young and my dad explaining to me the projectors in the back of the tube, it fascinated me!
So naturally, I majored in engineering, mechanical engineering which of course everyone knows is the best kind. Grades however were always a struggle for me even in high school. Coming to college I was told that my college GPA would definitely be lower than my high school GPA. I knew I was in trouble from the start! Making it through college was by far the hardest thing that I have ever done! I found myself backed into an academic corner time after time where I was 1 test, 1 paper, sometimes even 1 quiz away from failing a class! It was times like that that I really had to reach deeper and really have faith that if God’s will was for me to finish school (and I believed it was) that I’d somehow fight and battle my way through. Finishing college gave me the confidence that NOTHING was beyond me as long as God was behind me and I worked hard enough.
Since graduating in 2013, I have worked as a manufacturing engineer/project manager at a custom fiberglass shop and a mechanical design engineer at an elevator manufacturer. I have enjoyed small aspects of each job but in general have disliked both jobs. Something that has been bothering me lately is the feeling that I’m not using the gifts and talents that God has given me for His glory. Sure, I’m working hard to make sure that elevators are safe so that everyone continues to take elevator safety for granted (It’s a thankless job working for an elevator company) but what am I doing for eternity?!
I want to be part of something that’s bigger than myself. I want to use my engineering ability, whatever that may be to help others, truly HELP others and make their lives better! I might not be the most talented, smartest, or gifted person however there are so many other people in the world that are far less blessed than myself (physically, mentally, and spiritually) and my goal is to make as big a difference as I can for the time that God gives me. My prayer is that my heart will be open for whatever God has planned!
