Q Uh, and you studied wildlife management, which makes total sense. I mean, did you, did you go into college thinking like, like you want to get into land conservation and, and, and that kind of work?
A No, I mean, I basically just wanted to graduate from college. I felt like that that was kind of the minimum acceptable thing to do, you know, and so I went to A&M, not exactly sure what I was going to do, but my entire life before that, the only thing I had done to make money was build fishing rods. I always, you know, could build fishing rods, sell them, and make extra money through middle school, high school, even college, you know. So pretty quickly after I got to A&M, I realized that, hey, You know, I, I think I want to try to start a fishing rod company and be a customer of my dad's, you know. So I, I worked with my dad for maybe two or three months to save up some money to place my first blank order of the fishing rods, a graphite blank, and then as I put those rods together and sold them, I was able to branch out, and I just kind of grew my business from there.
AI assessment note: “No, I mean, I basically just wanted to graduate from college.”