Career Day

May, 3 2012 was Career Day at Parkway West High School. Many different people showed up to talk about their jobs and why they became  interested in the career they picked. Each person who came to a class room that Thursday, talked for about 15 minutes and took questions from student and politely answered them. The first person who came was a woman, Ms.Singleton. She was Attorney who attended Overbrook High School. She went to law school for about 3 years and then another 4 to become a lawyer. She is a Mediation attorney which involves dispute resolutions. Also meaning she settles the differences between two people to come to a compromise. The second person who came to talk about their job and what they do was Mr. Heigler. He was a Commerical Banker who owned a lot of small businesses. As a Commerical banker he loaned money to other businesses and made money on fees that were owed to the bank. Also he he got his degree in Business Management Degree, also known as BMD. He graduated from Delaware State College . A third person to visit the class was another man, Mr. Hanible, a Tax Business Owner. He left school in 11th grade to help out with his nephew's . But in 1992 is when he started doing his taxes and other peoples taxes. He went back to school to get his GED. When he was hired as a Account Manager he made about 19,000 just on his GED. But when he pursued to keep that position he went up from 19,000 to about 47,000. In 1997 he had put in a application for Vanguard which then he made about 52,000. He now has over 300 clients. He's the owner of Print shop and two other small business. Career day at Parkway was actually pretty interesting.