Occupation: Disease Intervention Specialist Today: a disease intervention specialist who makes $34.75 an hour and spends some of her money this week on Levi’s jeans. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period - and we’re tracking every last dollar. Wade's hobbies include surfing, diving, tennis, golfing, skiing, hiking, fishing, camping and, of course, sculpting.Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. Some of Wade's art may be viewed on Youtube by searching, "Wademade Art". He also has completed numerous commissions for prominent Orange County residents. He was commissioned to create the "Tree of Life" at Hoag Memorial Hospital, Newport Beach. And although he's only been sculpting for five years, he has won an award for "Artist of the Year" from the city of La Vern for public art. To create something of pleasure and something that will last, that was God's gift to me, and my gift to those who choose." Wade has no formal training in the arts. "Life can be short, it can change in an instant. His art truly has an international appeal and is suitable for display in both public and private venues. Utilizing metal and stone as his primary medium, Wade's sculptures are personally commissioned with no two pieces alike.
But I can see the art in my head and my hands just know what to do." A compassion for the ocean and all things aquatic is reflected in Wade's work. Something clicked: "It was like God shut off the light switch in one side of my brain and turned on the lights in the creative half. So he started to sculpt as a way to deal with the headaches and get his brain working again. But the pressures and complexities of running a business that had grown to seven states, 45 branches and over 150 employees was more than his brain could bare. that's what I do."He tried returning to the business that he and his family had built. "God gave me a Mulligan, a do-over, a chance to try something new. The blood ate away a portion of his brain leaving him with severe and constant headaches, cognitive and word-finding issues. Wade did survive, and his disabilities are acute. Events such as these are not often survivable and when they are, disabilities are the usual outcome. By then, Wade was in a coma and his prognosis was bleak. His brain bleed went on for five days and was not discovered until there was a CAT scan done at St. It was a small bleed in the center of his brain, technically called an "Intra-Cranial ventricular bleed", like an aneurysm. The next twenty-five years were spent building a successful family and wholesale distribution business. After his discharge, he met a beautiful woman, married her and bore two wonderful sons. Most notably, he was a hoist operator on HH3F helicopters flying search and rescue missions over the same waters in which he grew up. Wade spent the next three and a half years working on the aircraft in which he flew. This would later prove to be the catalyst for his sculpting. Upon his arrival there, he was selected and immediately sent through Naval welding school for exotic metals. San Diego, California would be his first choice and, lucky for him, there was an open billet. Finishing first in his class again, he got to choose his next duty station.
This is where he started to develop his metal working skills. He was trained and schooled as an aviation structural mechanic. Finishing first in his class, he was offered a position in the Aviation Division. After high school, he joined the United States Coast Guard. His love of the water impacted him early. However, it would be the beautiful waters of Laguna Beach and Catalina Island that would serve as a classroom for Wade's later artistic inspirations. He spent his youth surfing and diving the beaches and covers from San Francisco to San Quintin, Mexico. He became a certified SCUBA diver in 1972 at the age of fourteen. He started developing his craft at an early age by designing and shaping his own surfboards and skateboards. It was 1965 and the surfing world was on fire. Huntington Beach, California was where Wade was baptized into the world of surfing at seven years old. He currently resides in Costa Mesa, California.
He's lived in Orange and San Diego County beach communities his entire life. Wade Travis Jackson was born March 23, 1958, in Long Beach, California.
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