Daniel Buchardt was about seven years into a sales career when he looked around the insurance company he worked for and realized that not only did the job feel monotonous, he also wasn’t very interested in it.

“I’m not really passionate about insurance. I don’t think anyone really is,” said the 31-year-old Guelph, Ont., man.

“There really wasn’t a lot of upward mobility and it’s kind of like you’re doing the same job day in and day out. I was getting antsy. I wanted to get out of the office, get outside.”

Given his love of the outdoors and interest in sustainability, Buchardt eventually decided to head back to school to study environmental engineering.

While he made the decision quickly, there was a lot he had to think about first: a return to school would make juggling work difficult,

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