Glass Art Called To Him, So He Left Home Depot To Make Marbles
For $12 an hour, he would put away carts and lift bags of mulch
In the basement of an old industrial building in Rochester, New York, there’s a room where Hunter Read is leading his new life.
He spends his days and nights in front of a machine that sort of looks like a turntable, with a grinding wheel that spins at high speed. All over the walls, he’s scribbled elaborate mathematical patterns.
What’s he doing? Well, I can tell you what he’s not doing: working the parking lot at a Home Depot. A year ago, that was his job. For $12 an hour, he would put away carts and lift bags of mulch into people’s cars. It was a lot of walking back and forth, back and forth.
“I had this pair of shoes that had a hole in the bottom of them,” Read said. “And it was, like, February and just raining and torrential, and I just couldn’t keep my feet dry.”
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