Professional

Professional Experience

My working experience began at a young age making gift baskets for my parents small food store and folding boxes. I was paid prison wages at 35 cents and hours, but I was 9 or 10. I bagged groceries and sorted returnable cans in middle school and worked at a bike shop in high school.

Over the course of the next decade, I paid for collage working as a waiter, then bartender and then as a food and beverage manager. During these years I also had additional jobs that paid less but supplemented my income and provided personal reward. I taught a few adjunct classes for an alternative school, provided direct care for adults with mental handicaps, worked in forestry taking down trees, read books for study materials for individuals that were hard of hearing, and sold advertising.

In the fall of 2009 for family reasons I returned to town of my adolescence, Traverse City, Michigan. Employment in education was pretty scarce and I accepted a position with a small local business doing website development. Over the following years the company grew and I became a partner and eventually came to an agreement with my partners to fully own the business. As time passed the business flourished and was sold.

Today I spend my time with a service endeavor called Solidarity Granted.