i took every art, photography and drafting classes i could in high school. got accepted to go to college for architectural engineering, then i got an offer to become a machinist so i scrapped college and started on my apprenticeship. worked as a custom (one off) machinist for about 10 years. learned from an old german and an old hungarian. learned lots of lost stuff that you dont learn in school at all. never any cnc. got sick of that and started to teach myself glass. been doing it self taught for the last 5 years. i am also a dj. not the wedding kind but the big electronic music party kind. been doing that also for about the last 5 years.