A Question of Desire

            I’ve done wood working, Cabinetry, carving, lathe work, home construction, and finish carpentry. I’ve done metal work, welding, CAD/CAM, pipe bending and lathe work. I’ve done electrical work, spending a few majors in Electrical engineering, robotics, industrial automation, and even spent a summer rebuilding arcade games and pinball machines. But here’s the real kicker….I can’t afford any of the equipment to get back into any of those….I’ve debated using all of my talents together to build an arcade cabinet and integrate a game system of some sort into it…but that gets seriously expensive.   I’ve debated opening my own framing shop since the tools and materials for that aren’t that expensive....but I get the feeling making little rectangles won’t fully engross me, but I could mix that with the photography we are already doing….but to take pictures and try to sell them is a dangerous business…it would be much safer to take pictures for people and frame them….but once again, that’s hardly exercising my creativity. 

            I had the same issue when I was in Culinary school, I loved expressing myself through the food I made, but the practical applications were non existent…to get to the point in that career where I was permitted to break from a standard recipe is a million to one odds….and yes I say odds, because I know 2 people who could cook circles around Emeril….but they don’t have a ‘TV friendly’ appearance or style…so no beans…

No, I need something new….a challenge, mentally and physically.

 

So, there it is….I thought I had my mid-life crisis when I bought my SVT Cobra when I was 19….no, here it is…I’m 27 and talking about what kind of legacy will I leave behind…

Well, first things first, finishing the drywall and electrical in the basement….build a proper man-cave to have a midlife crisis in.

 

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