Car

So today my class went on a field trip to Wing Enterprises, where they make the little giant, a kind of ladder. Hal Wing, the founder and CEO gave us the tour. He told us lots about his business, showed us the warehouse, the factory, break room, presentation room, and everything. He was very personable and intelligent. When we left I told my teacher, "That didn't make me want to teach. It made me want to be an entrepreneur." We all piled back in the vans and drove back to Provo. As I was walking back to my apartment and thinking about my experience and how plausible running a business and being successful seems. Even if the success is mild. So I decided that I will also add another possibility to my future. Because going into administration takes a few years, I will have a few years as a regular teacher, with my summers off. If I can come across something that I can do well enough during the summers, it might be more profitable just to teach during the year, and run a seasonal business during the summers. Feel free to leave thoughts about that. Mr. Wing also showed us his impressive car collection. To list a few of the cars that he had in there: One of FDR's personal cars adapted for him and the secret service, the only one ever made to those specs; a bentley with aV-12 engine that he's taken up over 180 but will go over 200; a 2005 Mustang GT4 that he took to a show in 2009 that took 1st place; David O. McKay's personal Buick; a car (can't remember what type) that he modified and was named one of the 10 best cars in Utah; and the yellow Pontiac Solstice that you'll find at the end of this post (both a picture and a video of him revving it). There were about 30 or 40 such cars that I'm sure could all be sold for six figures.

He is extremely wealthy. I mean he had a ring on his right hand that had an 11.2 karat diamond in it. And the other hand had an equally impressive ring on it. I don't want anyone to think I'm fantasizing about a summer business that lands me a 71 Corvette in show condition (though I wouldn't object, much like Tevya). I am just thinking that it would be fun to run a summer business. I suppose the best I'd dream it up to be would be a job that made me wealthy enough that I didn't really need to teach, but still did just because I enjoyed it. I wouldn't be able to be there every day obviously, so I'd need to hire a manager to do stuff for me. Maybe I'd teach a half day and then leave to do some stuff on my company, and I would never even get into school administration. Of course, that is the largest I dream it would ever get. More realistically, I'd like it to bring in an extra 20-30K over those four months. At least I think that is what I think I would need to make to have it be worth my while. But I've never had a family to provide for or a mortgage so I might be surprised.

Tonight for our FHE activity we played something called "bigger and better." It is where both groups get a penny and have to go apartments to see if someone in the apartment will give you something bigger and better and so on. Whoever comes back with the biggest and best thing wins. We came back with an FHE family of 13. They couldn't top that.

Over the weekend, we went climbing, Tyler, a friend of his, Stephen, Jeff Carruth, me, and Annette. It was the first time Stephen had met Annette and he told me that he had realized since coming to college that just because a girl doesn't get married her freshman year doesn't mean there is something wrong with her. He then said Annette was a great example of that, super fun and super cute. It felt good to have him to validate my past dating choice. Then again, most people are interested in Annette as I've mentioned before.

Jessica gave me some homemade bread last night which was super nice of her. The bread is very good, I ate it for dinner tonight. Just wanted to throw that out there.

Okay, here is the car and video:
This car was made out of all NASCAR parts he said.