My father was a company, man. Uh, he got laid off after 25 years, which I probably looking back, it probably did have an impact on me. Um, he did. He loved what he, he did though. He worked for general electric, loved it.
And he always told me, you know, if you find something you truly love to do, you'll never work a day in your life. And I don't think my father ever did no. Once he was laid off, he reinvented himself at least two or three times. He did different things and he just, I always had a really good attitude about it.
Never worried about it and it worked out fine for him. So was he an entrepreneur? I think maybe later in life. A little bit, but no, I actually got started by accident. I think I was studying economics at Santa Clara university, which was not a good fit for me. And I took an art class by mistake. I mean, um, I'm in my early twenties, I take an art class and I fall in love working with my hands.
I go home. I tell my dad, Hey, I said, Hey, I want to be an artist. And it was like, you want to do what? And I said, I, I want to be an artist. And he said, well, you must like to draw. And I said, no. And he said, well, you must like to paint them. Right. I said, no, I don't like to do that either. So he led to me change majors and basically jump off the cliff. Now, what father does that? I it's interesting. Looking back. He was very brave. He knew that I needed to find something that that was going to make me happy. So I just took, started taking art classes and realized I wasn't going to be this great artist, but there's something about being, being creative that I really loved.
You see, every time I read about artists, they seem to create, they never retired. They loved it so much. And I loved working with my hands. So I just combined working with my hands with a little bit of business. Okay.
So, and that's how I got started. I knew that no one would hire me because I really didn't have any skills.
My family, you know, it's kind of funny. They never, they never had me go out and get a job. Although I had a few jobs, they never prepared me for life. So I don't know if that was a good thing or not, but, um, I knew once I had to get out in the real world, that I had to find a way to make a dollar.
And, and since I had, uh, school was not easy for me, I realized, I realized I didn't think anybody would hire me. So I created my own job. That's how I got started.
