Interview with Grady Gammage - Central Arizona Project

Q. Do you think the new members of the CAP Board will get an education and
become water buffaloes
A. I hope so. I don’t know but I hope that will be the case. They take it real
seriously and they’ll try to get into the policy issues about water and not get lost
worrying about the minutia of government waste. I know a while back they were,
one of them at least, was off on a terror about the food service at CAP being too
expensive. Well, that’s just not worth worrying about.
Q. What advice do you have for young people today trying to decide what they want
to do with their life
A. I have three of those at home, two of whom just graduated from ASU and since
all three of them are completely unwilling to listen to my advice. I think the single
biggest piece of advice that I would give is do lots of things. Don’t do just one
thing and stick to it and the CAP was part of doing something different for me. I
think going into the future that’s going to be even more true then it has in the
past. I think it will be unlikely that those people in my children’s generation will
have a single career where they do nothing but “x” for a long period of time. And
I think they ought to embrace that and look for lots of different things that they
want to do with their lives.
Q. How should they decide what those things are
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