>> Well, I don't know if anyone would want to do exactly what I do.
Actually the restaurant design industry is fairly small, but it did take me a long time
to figure out restaurants is what I want to do.
And it's kind of odd to think about that it took me so long to figure it out because I worked
in restaurants since I was in high school.
I worked in restaurants throughout college.
And after I finished my-- when I was in my Masters of Art center,
I was working at a restaurant then too.
And a few years after I'd left that restaurant, one of the co-workers came back to me
and asked me if I wanted to open up a restaurant with him.
So, I opened a restaurant.
And even still then, I wasn't designing restaurants except
for designing my own restaurant.
I was still doing a lot of residential stuff on my own.
And, you know, after I sold that restaurant, I happened to see an ad for Art Center alumni
that this restaurant chain-- a small restaurant chain in L.A. was looking for a designer.
And it happened to be that the owners were USC grads.
So when I met with them and, you know, we're all USC, that I had owned a restaurant before
and that I worked in restaurants, they were really happy about that.
So, they hired me and I've done their last 5 restaurants.
We're looking at a sixth restaurant now and I designed their headquarters
as well when they moved to Rosemead.
So, it was during that process I decided, oh, you know this is really what I want to do.
And I have to say, once you find-- I mean, I always knew I wanted to be an architect.
But it really-- the architecture's such a huge field, you could design anything.
And, once I figured out what I was really passionate about, then it really took off.
And I was always happy doing other architectural work,
but I'm absolutely happiest doing restaurants.
And once you find that area that you really enjoy, I think everything else falls into place.