"How did you get into this business?" is a common question in the young 3D printing industry. For a technology barely older than I am, many of the careers in demand today were not options when I was a student; it never occurred to me while earning my English degree that I would become a journalist covering additive manufacturing, for the simple fact that 15 years ago I had frankly never heard of the technology. Like so many others who have paved career paths in this nascent i