New Career

This afternoon, in work, we are having a going away party. One of our interns has completed a year at our facility and is moving on. He was an unlikely candidate from the beginning. He is 40 years old and a cameraman for movies and commercials. He decided he wanted to become a psychologist and realized that in order to get into graduate school he needed some experience on his resume. By chance, he met my director at a convention and asked if he could volunteer as a research assistant. We love free help! He started as the "new guy" and ended up as the supervisor of all of the interns. He became the one in charge of people that had a higher education and experience level. Some people disliked him for that. He applied for graduate school and because volunteering at my office holds a lot of weight in the psychology world, he got into his school of choice, in a program that limits its candidates to 30 students. This just goes to show what hard work and persistence can do.