Rudy,

There may have been drifting and gravitation but I think there was also 
a whole lot of misfit persistence to keep going in a direction that all 
surrounding influences, particulalry educational, kept saying did not 
exist. I distinctly remember when I was a Boy Scout walking down a 
stoney crickbed my telling a young Cornell professor Assistant Scout 
Master that I wanted to spend my life playing with stones and his 
telling me that nobody in the whole world does that. I also remember 
meeting a drunk who was panhandling and my spending a bit of time 
talking with him and his telling me that someday I would wander around 
telling people how to fix their old buildings. For whatever reason I did 
not believe either of them. I am not sure if it is by inheritance but 
one grandfather was a master finish carpenter, the other an electrician, 
and my mother first taught me to build with stone. So there, Rowdy.... 
let's bump shoulders on our fall forward!

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Rudy Christian wrote:

> It's hard for me to find peers in the trades side of my social complex 
> that came to their work by inheritance. Rather we seem to have gone 
> adrift at some point and gravitated to it. Clearly from that 
> perspective someone who came to it through academic rigor must somehow 
> be different...or better...or something.

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