Prompt-Write an essay in which you tell us about someone who has made an impact on your life and explain how and why this person is important to you.
Very few people have had an adult life that so closely mirrors a script for a Hollywood movie than my Dad.
When he graduated from college he was hired as a golf pro at an extravagant resort in Florida. Here he made good money while going out every night and partying. After five years he managed to save enough money to open his own restaurant and put his degree in hotel/restaurant management to good use. A year later my Dad opened Everett's in the Midwestern town of Columbia, Missouri. Using recipes he created and some picked up through his days of traveling and partying in college and around the US, he created a magnificent and prosperous restaurant in a town that was already filled with restaurants that had tasty food and homemade dishes.
Within a year or two, my Dad's restaurant had taken off like a rocket ship and he was making more money than he had ever imagined. He made enough to go to Palm Springs for weeks at a time with his buddies and play golf all day. At one point, before I was born, he had a Porsche 911 turbo, Mercedes SL500, a pick up truck, and a Jeep. One day a perky blond hair girl walked into his restaurant and asked for a job. Not only did she get a job, my Dad married her, but after two years and two kids a nasty divorce took place.
Through the next ten years my Dad opened two more restaurants, but they had marginal success. When the recession hit in the early 2000's the two newest restaurants closed. My Dad began working fifty hours a week for the next two years to keep his last restaurant open, but in the end his efforts were insignificant compared to the peril the economy was in and my Dad closed the restaurant after twenty years of service.
My Dad started with nothing and eventually worked till he had everything, until everything he had worked for over twenty years to obtain was stripped of him. In a Hollywood movie with a story similar to my Dads, there is always a happy ending. This is real life. There is not going to be a person who comes and fixes everything and my Dad is not likely to win the lottery some day. He has to do everything himself.
There my Dad was left with nothing but my brother and me. What would most people do? Give up? Run away? End it? Not my Dad, he immediately went out and started to find work be it a 9-5 job or washing dishes. A drastic change from being his own boss while making more money than he knew what to do with. Everything he did, it seemed that the odds were against him. For example he was hired to manage a restaurant, then just when things were looking up, the restaurant closed after six months of my Dad working there. For the last four years my Dad has been doing whatever it takes to make ends meet to take care of my brother and me. That is why my Dad is important to me and has made an impact on my life. I hope that I have the perseverance and strength that he shows to do what lies ahead of me. Without his life lessons and guidance, I would not be who I am today.
Very few people have had an adult life that so closely mirrors a script for a Hollywood movie than my Dad.
When he graduated from college he was hired as a golf pro at an extravagant resort in Florida. Here he made good money while going out every night and partying. After five years he managed to save enough money to open his own restaurant and put his degree in hotel/restaurant management to good use. A year later my Dad opened Everett's in the Midwestern town of Columbia, Missouri. Using recipes he created and some picked up through his days of traveling and partying in college and around the US, he created a magnificent and prosperous restaurant in a town that was already filled with restaurants that had tasty food and homemade dishes.
Within a year or two, my Dad's restaurant had taken off like a rocket ship and he was making more money than he had ever imagined. He made enough to go to Palm Springs for weeks at a time with his buddies and play golf all day. At one point, before I was born, he had a Porsche 911 turbo, Mercedes SL500, a pick up truck, and a Jeep. One day a perky blond hair girl walked into his restaurant and asked for a job. Not only did she get a job, my Dad married her, but after two years and two kids a nasty divorce took place.
Through the next ten years my Dad opened two more restaurants, but they had marginal success. When the recession hit in the early 2000's the two newest restaurants closed. My Dad began working fifty hours a week for the next two years to keep his last restaurant open, but in the end his efforts were insignificant compared to the peril the economy was in and my Dad closed the restaurant after twenty years of service.
My Dad started with nothing and eventually worked till he had everything, until everything he had worked for over twenty years to obtain was stripped of him. In a Hollywood movie with a story similar to my Dads, there is always a happy ending. This is real life. There is not going to be a person who comes and fixes everything and my Dad is not likely to win the lottery some day. He has to do everything himself.
There my Dad was left with nothing but my brother and me. What would most people do? Give up? Run away? End it? Not my Dad, he immediately went out and started to find work be it a 9-5 job or washing dishes. A drastic change from being his own boss while making more money than he knew what to do with. Everything he did, it seemed that the odds were against him. For example he was hired to manage a restaurant, then just when things were looking up, the restaurant closed after six months of my Dad working there. For the last four years my Dad has been doing whatever it takes to make ends meet to take care of my brother and me. That is why my Dad is important to me and has made an impact on my life. I hope that I have the perseverance and strength that he shows to do what lies ahead of me. Without his life lessons and guidance, I would not be who I am today.
