Interview with Grady Gammage - Central Arizona Project

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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 Interview with Grady Gammage Page 90 of 91
A. Look for stuff that you think is fun and challenging. It can be all sorts of different things. I like puzzles and I like trying to figure out how to manipulate large groups of people to do things I want and that’s why I do the kinds of things I do. Q. Sounds like a politician to me! A. Yeah, sort of. The pay’s better. - - - End of Interview - - Interview with Grady Gammage Page 91 of 91
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