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  1. Hi everyone, my name is Jacob and this is my snapshot presentation.
  2. So my mentor is my brother,
  3. he had an interesting path through college and I think you'll
  4. see why.
  5. So
  6. he majored in art history at Swarthmore, down by media pennsylvania.
  7. Um He's always been interested
  8. in art and he could always basically
  9. never draw or paint or anything
  10. and
  11. so it was interesting for me to see him get
  12. into art history but he loved knowing all the facts
  13. and history behind art and he studied abroad in Italy,
  14. which is something he really enjoyed.
  15. Um While he was in school though he started fixing people's computers
  16. for cash and kind of made it his way of having pocket money
  17. while also like hanging around the computer lab. He's always been tech savvy
  18. um
  19. which to his benefit because we would do stuff like fix people's computers
  20. to even
  21. uh you know,
  22. do it, he did a little micro brewery at one point to make money.
  23. He's a very smart kid.
  24. My older brother,
  25. he graduated with a bachelor's in our history and started to work
  26. at the Chicago Museum of Art.
  27. Uh
  28. He had a change of heart midway through because he didn't enjoy
  29. the
  30. culture of working in museums
  31. and this kind of disheartened him because his whole major
  32. was
  33. basically relating of working in museums and he just didn't realize he hated it
  34. until he got into the job field
  35. now
  36. just remember he had been fixing everyone's computers
  37. in college
  38. um and networking
  39. with people while he was fixing
  40. computers. Um
  41. So that's something that's gonna be helpful for him in this next part.
  42. He actually
  43. had to
  44. after graduating and realizing that he went into the wrong field
  45. kind of like me,
  46. he uh
  47. decided to start working at the Apple store
  48. and
  49. he was just fixing phones and eventually he was fixing laptops and eventually
  50. he was
  51. fixing phones and laptops and running the floor and being a manager and then
  52. he went back to,
  53. he went and he took a few more courses through his college on how to write
  54. apps.
  55. And he started developing games
  56. and things like that for fun
  57. little
  58. uh like the
  59. little like fun little cliquey strategy games for phones which
  60. is something he still likes to do to this day
  61. and because
  62. it wasn't so much his degree that got him to where
  63. he was, it was more of him kind of using college resources kind of like networking
  64. um That kind of helped him become what he is now and now he actually
  65. follow his passion
  66. and now he's writing apps for
  67. legal companies or health companies.
  68. So he's kind of creating
  69. doing this whole different thing that has nothing to do with his major
  70. but he did utilize school and very like minute li
  71. kind of
  72. he didn't have to go and go for another four years. Like he just
  73. was working at Apple and then
  74. I started working for another company and
  75. then started taking some classes so you could
  76. take on a few more things just like a certificate in in programming and uh
  77. he was able to
  78. change his whole career and he makes a ton of money and he travels
  79. and
  80. he has great benefits and it's kind of
  81. My mentor and what I kind of want to do with my life because for the
  82. last 10 years I've been cooking and I want benefits and I want to travel and
  83. um I think my big brother is is pretty smart, so I'm not going into his field, but
  84. I'm going back to school for a better life,
  85. um
  86. more money and benefits and all that stuff.
  87. Um
  88. so little info about me,
  89. I'm sorry.
  90. So I graduated high school at a public school
  91. and did a few
  92. months
  93. uh William Paterson University
  94. before I dropped out and decided to take a break and I ended up cooking
  95. and then I cooked, cooked, cooked and I cooked my way up to being a sous chef.
  96. Um
  97. obviously now I want to change careers
  98. or paths,
  99. so
  100. one of my
  101. like benefits
  102. or
  103. advantages to schooling is that when I'm interested in something, I tend to
  104. um
  105. hyper focus on it and research it really
  106. hard and try
  107. really hard on it. And and
  108. as of late I've been interested
  109. and uh
  110. You know, oysters and shellfish and marine biology when I dropped out 10 years ago,
  111. I was actually,
  112. the way I started cooking was I was interested in working on
  113. a sailboat and I didn't think I needed a school for that.
  114. So I went and I
  115. started to work in the cell
  116. sailboat up in Maine
  117. and uh
  118. I eventually needed to make extra money.
  119. So I started dishwashing
  120. at this
  121. restaurant
  122. and eventually I would
  123. begging the cooks to teach me
  124. recipe here or there if I could help chop an onion or something.
  125. So I started cooking. It's kind of from my interest of
  126. working by the sea.
  127. And my first real, I mean besides five guys,
  128. my first real restaurant job was the lobster shack in Maine.
  129. And
  130. I got to work with shellfish like clams and mussels and lobsters and crabs.
  131. So it kind of makes sense that I
  132. would be interested in being a marine biologist because
  133. these things have always interested me even years
  134. and years prior to me working in Maine and
  135. thinking about working on the sofa.
  136. So
  137. con
  138. would be
  139. I do have a. D. H. D.
  140. So paying attention to things that don't want to pay attention to stuff
  141. it was never great at math. I never did good at math.
  142. It was always
  143. like
  144. okay at science.
  145. So because there's things I'm interested in things I'm just straight up not
  146. when I'm interested in something I'll go out of my way to research but
  147. We've got an 80 s. She is
  148. one of my strengths and it's also one of my weaknesses.
  149. Um
  150. I did well on the S.
  151. ATS,
  152. which gave me a lot of confidence to think that I could
  153. just skate through college when my first try 10 years ago.
  154. That's kind of what made me take a break.
  155. Um and things I'm worried about as far as college, going back to college now is
  156. now
  157. this is my money. So I'm nervous about
  158. messing up the work school balance
  159. because I'm working a full time job and I'm going to school
  160. eventually. I'm gonna have to
  161. see if I could work a part time job and get some government aid
  162. if I'm going to do more classes
  163. or just figure out a longer plan for getting classes done with a full time job
  164. or maybe try to find a job that
  165. I can make more and work less at,
  166. you know,
  167. one of those things,
  168. college is different than high school for me because
  169. I, if I miss a class or a skip school or
  170. I'm late in the assignment, it's really me messing with my money.
  171. So I am trying to take it serious.
  172. The ways I'm going to combat
  173. these pitfalls
  174. with the college is
  175. I'll use starfish connect, which I already have to talk to,
  176. um guidance counselors and
  177. and I'm gonna use office hours and try to talk to professors as much as possible.
  178. I'm in a little stressful part of my life right now, but things will get better.
  179. I'm going to start slow and not rush
  180. into everything and they're gonna start taking more
  181. classes as I'm able to
  182. adjust my work life balance
  183. And then I'm gonna make sure I'm constantly redefining
  184. my goals because in the last 10 years I didn't
  185. I didn't do that,
  186. I just kept working and I didn't take time to think is this what I want?
  187. Like like my brother, he, at the end of his graduation,
  188. he redefined what he wanted in his goals and started working.
  189. That's a lesson I can take from him, is to constantly think is this what I'm doing,
  190. what I want because I can change um
  191. a person who can change and and
  192. and
  193. for the better.
  194. Um and it will motivate me to make sure to know that this is the path I do want to take.
  195. So thank you, this is my snapshot presentation.