Role Models In Society

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Typically we associate roll models as perfect members of society. A role model is the type of person that you would take home to meet the parents. A role model can be someone who fights corruption, helps society, or follows in the footsteps of religious figures. And most colleges hear of role models that tell them to achieve theirs goals they way they did by studying hard, making the right choices, and always putting school first. But my role model didn’t never went to school. In fact he didn’t make it past freshmen year in high school. But my roll model has done things that I can even being to imagine.
From the time he was fifteen he has done everything from build race cars to work for NASA and even helped design and build the rides at Disneyland. He is my boss, Chief, which is a fitting name for one of the leaders in my life.
I first met chief after 9 months of trying to get a job at a local stereo shop. I had only come into contact with his son, Jean, the manager. My goal was to just learn how to install stereos in exchange for doing odd jobs around the shop so eventually I was have the skill to have the job that most teenagers would die for. After 9 months of practically begging every Friday for work Jean let me have my chance. So I started my apprenticeship with chief was my mentor. It was and still to this day is one of the biggest challenges of my life. For chief it was him passing down his knowledge in a way to be sure that I do things right the first time. Many night we would be up until 1 or 2 am working until I understood the “lesson for the day” whether it be installing mobile video, doing layout design and production in the machine shop, or working on the dragster for one of his race teams. His teachings and discipline put me in a position that I wouldn’t even have imagined before I started working at the shop. After 1 year when I was 17 I was al of a sudden working on $70,000 hummers, $250,00...