Hehe, I get trapped into things. When I was 8 I hit a curb and dented my rim, so I went to the bike shop, got some outrageous replacement price, took the thing home and hammered it back into shape, then trued the rim. Got into the bike hobby and opened a shop when I was 12, servicing other kids in the BMX racing sceen. So I became an expert by accident. Then I got into motorcycles at 15, because I got a deal "too good to pass up" on my $40 dirt bike. I had to fix a few things there, started rebuilding them, sold my bike shop out and started doing motorcycle repairs for the local motocross sceen. Built myself some damn nice scramble bikes out of junk. Even got myself a reputation in repair and modification in that area.
Took a welding course, won a competition.
Went to a university/trade school for auto body, dropped out after my first year, went back later and used my good grades from that place to get into a better school.
Bought a computer and fried the video card tuning the monitor (zapped myself fairly good too). Started replacing parts as they failed, building systems, buying surplus from the university, started a refurb business.
About 1000 systems later the market fell out.
See, I'm an expert of many trades and a jack of a few more. All by accident.
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