Forget about giving your kid a doctor’s kit, a fireman’s hat or other
inspirational career toy. Just let them play with their legos. Why?
‘Cos if they get good, it could pay off big time. We're talking six figure big.
Nathan Sawaya, a 35 year old man from New York, makes over six figures
from his lego art. He wasn’t always a Lego sculpture, in fact he had a
pretty highfalutin career as a successful Wall Street attorney. To ease
his stress after a long day, he’d create his own art at night creating
pieces from clay and candy and finally finding his match with Legos. In
2004 he won a competition sponsored by the toy brick company to find
the finest builder in the land. He won and became a “master model
builder” working at Legoland in San Diego county, but was only making
about $13 a hour. That proved to just be his training ground, paying
his dues. He then took his polished building skills home to New
York. Now, he racks in the dough with oodles of commissions such as recent projects like a 10
foot replica of the Dubai Trump Towers for the Donald, a four food
bumble bee for Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz as a gift for his wife Ashlee
Simpson and the above life sized sculpture of Stephen Colbert. Yeah, a career building stuff out of Legos. Who knew that was a job option? Next
thing you know they’ll be offering a college course Lego Building 101.
(via Portfolio.com)
