In high college I got into glass blowing as a activity.
- I had high hopes of being a lawyer, and was focused on my collegeing, however working with glass and sculpture was my artistic outlet! Glass blowing is a actually specialized skill, involving taking molten glass on the end of a pipe and blowing it into a special shape.
I would make vases or lamp bases, or periodically just make a crazy creation out of colored glass, and years later when I went to college I found a supplemental income by using my glass blowing skills at the local glassworks. This business adjoined the medical marijuana dispensary, and basically all I did was make bongs and pipes for potheads. Working there also provided me easy access to medical cannabis, something that I started to avail myself of on a nightly basis. I could never use medical cannabis while working of course, because the heat involved is actually dangerous. Whenever I went to my college classes, or hung out around the house, I would smoke a lot of medical cannabis. With the employee discount I got at the medical cannabis store, it was cheaper than smoking cigarettes! Eventually I moved out of town and had to stop working at the medical cannabis shop, although I still make bongs in my spare time, then now I sell them online, through an Etsy shop, instead of in a medical cannabis dispensary. The spend money is a lot better, however without getting the sweet employee discount at the medical cannabis store, I still make less at the end of the day.