How does a CPA end up in art?
People ask me this often, and the honest answer is that art has always been part of my life.
For more than twenty years, I built a career in accounting and finance, from my first job at a public accounting firm to chief financial officer of a tech startup. Along the way, I kept wondering what makes work truly meaningful, and why so many of us follow rules about careers that were invented only recently. Eventually, I spent several years researching the future of work to find out.
My research taught me that the most rewarding careers are built where three things meet: what you are good at, what genuinely interests you, and what the market needs. At some point, I decided to take my own advice and bring my background in accounting and finance together with my lifelong interest in art.
In recent years, I became increasingly interested in art collections, and in the collectors who build them.
The turning point came in Las Vegas, at the Southern Nevada Art Museum. Many of the works there once hung in a private collection. Now anyone can walk in and see them.
I left the museum wondering what will happen to all the art that people spend their lives collecting. Nariway grew out of that question.
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