I went to school for architecture, worked for a couple of architectural firms. It didn't last though, the market tanked and then wound up working for the US Navy. I started as a draftman working in the design division creating drawings of ship systems. I enjoyed architecture the most, the process of drafting and designing homes. The materials used to build, the patterns in stone and wood, the rust of metal. The colors and patterns that nature gives us in these materials are ... beautiful. Works of art in themselves.