Where you've come from often has everything to do with where you're going. As a case in point, let me describe a project that had its origins all the way back at the very start of my work as a watershaper. My pool-industry career began soon after I graduated from college. At the time, I was living in a garage in a rough part of Los Angeles and really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I had studied ancient history, three-dimensional design and industrial design and had been accepted as a PhD candidate in pharmacology at the University of the Pacific. I was convinced I wanted to be a designer, but I wasn't sure which field I should enter. Then one day, at a time when I was about as broke as an organ grinder without a monkey, I. answered an ad in the newspaper looking for an artist. I went to the offices of a well-known pool company and showed my portfolio of designs and drawings. They seemed impressed and asked me to call back the following Friday. When I did, the owner he told me that they weren't going to hire me. When I asked why, he said they thought I was over-qualified.
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