When I was a boy,my father told me that he could do anything that he wanted to do . Dad said that he wanted to be the first to develop color prints in our city, and so he did.
When I was 16,Dad looked closely at the violin I played and announced that he wanted to make one.He read about violin making,and then became a violin-maker at the age of 43.He bought the tools and materials, opened a small store and set Mom up as the shopkeeper, while he worked at a local company.He retired from the company 17 years later and continued to make violins and other instruments.