Be careful what you wish for

I get asked how I got into the pickup business. The short form answer to that is that it happened. The long form answer is that way back when we were doing repair work, a customer brought in a two sensor bass pickup with one of the sensors not working. Using the absolute infinite wisdom that I approached every repair job with I said to the customer "I can fix that."

I took the pickup apart and had a look at what was going on inside. After contemplating the object I said something on the order of....'hell, I can make those....'. And so boys and girls, for the next twenty plus years, that's what we've been doing. Pickups, preamps, jack assemblies and pretty well anything to do with amplifying acoustic instruments. Like a lot of things in life, sometimes we don't recognize the definitive signposts and turning points as we go along thinking we're just doing day to day stuff.  

Things here are never quite the same from one day to the next as inquiries vary, priorities get modified, and one can go from being pleasantly busy to being absolutely buried pretty damn quickly. You just have to be careful what you wish for.