In 2007 I was hired on at Lights in the Night Noen is Sacramento, CA. I got the job because I told someone at church that I needed a job. He knew a woman whose husband owned the business. Word went through the grapevine and I was hired. I was the only employee and started learning to pump neon. I began to learn bending shortly after being hired. After working there for a few years I bought the company and the owner moved away to Texas. I continued in California until 2019 when I picked everything up and moved off to Montana.