Hey Papa...
Interesting question
I've been pondering it for several days now, at times even anguishing over it, and I’m still not sure i have the answer.
I’ve been all over the map on this. From, me being a product of the 60’s and my misguided youth to the fact that my dad was a carpet retailer when I was learning to talk and one of the first words out of my mouth was “carpet”.
Past situation, I cleaned my first carpet in 1982. It was my first day as a part time janitor my freshmen year in high school. I can still remember like it was yesterday. Your basic blue/grey CGD and we used a spin bonnet technique. I was a chubby little kid who never had his noodle wet.
Fast forward four years to graduation day. I had a diploma in one hand and a working mans PHD in the other. Away to college I went. The working mans PHD put food in my mouth and the college stuff seamed like a pipe dream.
1987 opened my first carpet cleaning business and ran it until spring of 1997. I developed a nice clientele but had to get out of the business because of a motorcycle injury. Got a regular job in the computer industry during the boom and worked for the man until 2005. Lost my job in 2005 but made a nice recovery from the injury.
Present situation. December 2005 decided to go back to my roots and opened another carpet cleaning business. I’m trying to be smarter about it this time around but still faced with the normal challenges of starting a new business.
I was looking for the Freudian answer to your question but now I believe it’s much simpler than that. During my stint in the computer industry a Lieutenant in the Air Force said this, “Whatever you first job is in the Air force is will eventually be your last job”.
Does the full circle phenomenon exist? In my case the answer is “Yes”.
I’m forty three years old now and I’ve spent eighteen of them with a piece of iron in my hands.
Take her easy Pops!