Cab rides can be pretty beneficial to Architects. Last night, as we got into a cab back home after dinner, I noticed that the cab driver's Truecaller showed that he worked as a manager at a bank.
"Hey, do you work at a bank?", I asked him wondering why he was driving a cab if he worked at a bank
"No, I don't know why Truecaller says that, I am a business man", he replied with a smile.
Curious about what he was doing riding a can instead of running his business, I asked him more. After a few minutes of conversation, I figured it out. He owned a few cars and rode them once in a while to understand the market. "Also, I have a granite factory", he said.
Me and sulu sitting in the car smiled at eachother. We had a couple of projects we had issues acquiring some stone. "Hey where is your factory? Do you deal with other stones?", We asked quickly.
Within the time he dropped us home, we had figured it all out -his name, his company name, the kinds of services we could get from him and some intensive knowledge about granite.
The stories don't end here, the welder we found while going for site visits , the artist we found after Rambo's bday party and invited for one of our projects. Architects can find information and people wherever we go - all we have to do is look for it.
So look out, look around - your next break though might be standing right next to you.
- Ananya Suresh (Architect)
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