How does one go from investment banker to cabinet maker?
I think the investment banker and the cabinet-maker were nothing more than manifestations of the same person, in the same way that the same man can go from being a rocker to a priest, a dentist to a rock guitarist, or as in case of Damian Hirst, a market-stall holder to an artist. The human character is rather complex and a job is not really the person, and thank God for that! What a sad and dour state of affairs it would be if the world was run by people whose only contributions to the world were limited by their mandated occupations. Throughout history, we have tried to classify people by their jobs, but the human spirit has defied all attempts to pigeonhole it. Our characters are multi-faceted, and different parts of us use different means to express themselves. To give you an example, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was a great French Neo-classical painter of the 19th Century. His pastime was violin and he was so talented that the great composers Liszt and Saint-Saens thought he shou
