My Dad, My Inspiration
The person who inspires me most in my family is my dad, Darrel Drumright. He is a very important person in my life. Once my siblings and I turned 14, he has tried to convince us to get a job, since he had a job before he turned that age. My dad feels that young people should have jobs to better appreciate where money comes from and the value of it. He worked hard to get his chiropractic degree. Even as a kid, he had always wanted to become some type of doctor. My dad inspires me through his hard work and achievement of his goal to become a skilled, caring chiropractor who helps people.
My dad was born into a poor family and worked as a paperboy at age 12. This continued until his dad (my grandfather) died when my dad was 14. His mom did not have enough money to raise their family, so he had to get a job to help out with expenses. Soon after, my dad got a job at IHop as a full-time dishwasher. He was able to do so because he and his manager misrepresented his age on his job application. That job at IHop lasted for two years and then he was made head cook. By college, the majority of …show more content…
Starting college he had a job at a Mexican restaurant as a cook. This helped pay for some of his bills. He wanted to be a waiter because he noticed they got paid significantly more than him, however, his boss refused to change his position because he knew how good my dad was at cooking. Later, my dad quit that job and loaded trucks at a UPS facility. Meanwhile, at college while he was taking pre-med classes, he had a lot of questions about how the classes were taught. He was told that he asked too many questions and that he should just sit down and absorb information from the textbook like everyone else. My dad disagreed and saw it as trying to treat disease more than treating the actual person, so he quit college after his senior year at age 22 to join the
The person who inspires me most in my family is my dad, Darrel Drumright. He is a very important person in my life. Once my siblings and I turned 14, he has tried to convince us to get a job, since he had a job before he turned that age. My dad feels that young people should have jobs to better appreciate where money comes from and the value of it. He worked hard to get his chiropractic degree. Even as a kid, he had always wanted to become some type of doctor. My dad inspires me through his hard work and achievement of his goal to become a skilled, caring chiropractor who helps people.
My dad was born into a poor family and worked as a paperboy at age 12. This continued until his dad (my grandfather) died when my dad was 14. His mom did not have enough money to raise their family, so he had to get a job to help out with expenses. Soon after, my dad got a job at IHop as a full-time dishwasher. He was able to do so because he and his manager misrepresented his age on his job application. That job at IHop lasted for two years and then he was made head cook. By college, the majority of …show more content…
Starting college he had a job at a Mexican restaurant as a cook. This helped pay for some of his bills. He wanted to be a waiter because he noticed they got paid significantly more than him, however, his boss refused to change his position because he knew how good my dad was at cooking. Later, my dad quit that job and loaded trucks at a UPS facility. Meanwhile, at college while he was taking pre-med classes, he had a lot of questions about how the classes were taught. He was told that he asked too many questions and that he should just sit down and absorb information from the textbook like everyone else. My dad disagreed and saw it as trying to treat disease more than treating the actual person, so he quit college after his senior year at age 22 to join the