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What You Said: Game-Changing Gifts

By CSI HQ posted 12-17-2018 03:50 PM

  

Happy Holidays! In honor of the season, this question was posted last week on the CSI Connect Community Page: “LEGOs? Erector Set? Lincoln Logs? What holiday gift first got you thinking about a career in the construction industry?”

 

Here are just a few of the many awesome answers. Read them all, and share your own memories here.

“Cardboard blocks/bricks in pre-school, building forts with blankets, Lincoln Logs, and then LEGOs were early influences. In high school, I skipped Driver’s Ed and delayed getting my driver's license because the Architectural Drafting class I took was only offered once, and it conflicted with Driver’s Ed. I think I made a good choice.”

Eric D. Letbetter, AIA
Niles Bolton Associates, Inc.
Atlanta, GA

 

“I grew up on LEGOs, but what sealed the deal was a copy of Architectural Graphic Standards, 6th Edition, that I received while in high school. I had expressed an interest in architecture at the time and my parents gave me a copy of the very expensive reference book the Christmas before graduation.”
Ronald Geren, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, CDT, AIA, CSC, SCIP
Principal, RLGA Technical Services, LLC
Scottsdale, AZ

 

“Since I grew up a girl in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, I never received a construction related gift (really need that sarcasm font). What I did receive were dolls. And they needed places to live. So when my dad got a new suit that came in a big box, I proceeded to design an apartment. Looking back, that box was a perfect simulation for a floor plan.”

Lynn Javoroski FCSI, Member Emeritus, CCS, CDT, LEED AP, SCIP
FCSI CCS
Juneau WI

 

“The Christmas present that really got me going was a Kenner Building Set. Green base with holes punched on a grid, a series of plastic ‘structural’ elements that plugged together, and a bunch of wall panels that snapped onto the structural ones. The results looked somewhat like a corporate headquarters building from the early 1960s.”

Joel Niemi CSI
Snohomish WA

 

“For me it was the Girder and Panel building set, and pre-LEGO American ​Plastic bricks. I would spend hours building and rebuilding and trying new ways of using the materials. Of course these were my gateway drug to building HO scale models. That led to such other bad habits as kit bashing, scratch building and then the ultimate high, full scale!”
Clinton Newton CSI, CDT, LEED AP
Project Manager
Barry Isett & Associates
Easton PA

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