Started as something to do. Being disabled I turned to the stock market in the early 1990's and since I didn't have a job and really couldn't at that time due to my back. I did pretty well for a few years and then got in with some guys I met online and one opened his own board where we could talk and watch stock along with trading research info we found. I did really well then until 2000 when I have my bypass surgery and after that I lost interest in most everything for a while and never got back the passion to go back to 10-12 hours a day on my computer doing my thing. So after a couple of not so good years I just decided to quit and closed my accounts including my online trading account. Then it kind of hit me, what in the world am I going to do with all that time I was spending on the stock market? I was not going to go fishing every day all day and I was not going to watch TV all day so looked for something to do. Then I had a really sorry vise and tried to tie a few things g with some junk I had. Then just decide to give it a shot even though there was no videos to learn from, there was the very excellent lesson on FAOL which I really got into and studied hard for a long time. Anyway once I got okay at it and other started giving me some compliments, I was hooked and this hobby has given me a lot to do for a long time. In my 12-14 years of this I have taught and helped a lot of guys start tying and have tied a lot of jigs and still enjoy the entire thing!
Skip