Christopher Brayshaw wasn't always the happy owner of a used bookstore. Before opening Pulpfiction - no, it's not named after the movie starring John Travolta, but after the fictional books made of pulp that were popular in the first half of the 20th century - he tried his hand at a number of jobs until, as he puts it, he was forced to become an entrepreneur: 'I was a comic-book convention organizer; I was a not-very-happy library employee, and an even-less-happy employee of the Vancouver Art Gallery.' Mr. Brayshaw feels being his own boss was the only way to go. 'I'm not one of those people that knew from the age 5 they've wanted to be an entrepreneur. ... Self-employment was probably the last opportunity for somebody like me.'
"I've been pushed into being entrepreneurial by the total failure of every other form of employment."
Christopher Brayshaw, Pulpfiction
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