What item got you into glass

[Meerkat]

Easily it was all the pussy I was supposed to get, girls go wet for creative guys, or so I am told.

But honestly, I was working a job that although it was extremely cool job, I was the top level guy who managed every aspect of 3 businesses all within one job, so even though I was the guy running the whole show, I was also working at least 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. So even though my extremely cool job made me a pimping guy in the safety break community, I wasn't able to enjoy it. I pretty much worked, went home, had supper and collapsed on the couch then slept and started it all over.

Long story short, I met many glass blowers through my job, I started hanging out at their studio, I looked at their lifestyle, which to me *SEEMED* at the time to be the cool and easy life, as they just hung out in their studio all day, shooting the shit, working on the torch, friends dropping by, having safety breaks, listening to good music, making art, etc.... and then I compared it to my lifestyle of work and sleep and not really anything to show for it and I had a background of an artist and wanted that to be my career (although in special effects, not in glass), but anything artistic had to be better than killing myself for a boss, who I forgot to mention treated me like shit and yelled and screamed at me even though I kept his whole scene running and then when he felt bad about doing that, he would toss me down safety break material and extra money.

So I guess this isn't so short, but to skip a lot and to really try to sum up and answer the original question, I have been involved in safety break activism for a long time, so it was a real passion of mine, very important to me and I felt that making pipes was a way of paying homage and honour to the safety break material, to create a proper vessel of art for it to be consumed of, so I saw becoming a pipe maker as a way of becoming more involved in my activist passion for the stuff that does so much good and actually creating something to show for my work.

Mods, if you feel that the last paragraph violates TOC, feel free to delete it, I seriously tried my best to follow rules, I am under the assumption that the word safety break is fine, but maybe my allusions were too obvious, I dunno... anyway if its an issue, just delete it, let me know polietly, no need to flame me. Sorry in advance.