I went on to motorcycle racing, burning up the dirt and streets. Besides that, I went from wood burning to woodworking when I started working for a cabinet and furniture maker when I was 15 years old. I dropped out of high school and worked in the wood trades for the next five years until I enrolled in college. I earned my master’s degree and have worked in photography, architecture, planning and computer programing for the past 30 years, but I still use the woodworking skills I learned when I was 15 quite often.
Thanks. I find it sad is that today it’s almost impossible for teenagers to get a job and learn valuable skills and get the work experience that I did when I was a teen. I used dangerous tools in dangerous environments with a bunch of foul mouthed, often morally challenged, sometimes borderline criminal men that would be considered too bad of influences on young teens today.
Unbelievable. Amazing. Stupendous. ❤
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Fun….. that is my motivators [bows] and appreciation 😀
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Hyperspeed. We used to do wood burning when I was a kid, but we never turned out anything like the girl on a tricycle. Amazing work.
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I guess the artist stuck to it for a long long while while the rest of the dewy eyed kids went away to work on other things 😛
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I went on to motorcycle racing, burning up the dirt and streets. Besides that, I went from wood burning to woodworking when I started working for a cabinet and furniture maker when I was 15 years old. I dropped out of high school and worked in the wood trades for the next five years until I enrolled in college. I earned my master’s degree and have worked in photography, architecture, planning and computer programing for the past 30 years, but I still use the woodworking skills I learned when I was 15 quite often.
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That is an amazing list…… 😀
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Thanks. I find it sad is that today it’s almost impossible for teenagers to get a job and learn valuable skills and get the work experience that I did when I was a teen. I used dangerous tools in dangerous environments with a bunch of foul mouthed, often morally challenged, sometimes borderline criminal men that would be considered too bad of influences on young teens today.
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We live in a more mentally unbalanced and morally corrupt world than what used to be …… 😦
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Wow! What a lot of work! Like you say, “perspiration and determination,” but also a good measure of talent.
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Phenomenal! The final was gorgeous, but watching it take shape. ::Shakes head a little stunned:
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