When you've got a passion, pursue it, just as Hayden Russell has done.
An unfinished panel beating apprenticeship certainly did not diminish his interest in the craft - the 25-year-old went out and set up his own company.
Now HDC Panelbeating is open for business at 196 Taupo Quay, beside Mitre10 Mega.
A Wanganui boy, Mr Russell is leasing his workshop complete with its spray painting booth and has had so much work that he has taken on a full-time employee.
He had worked in Palmerston North for about two years but came back to Wanganui to look for more permanent work.