My name is Juan Juarez and I am a senior at Hawkins High School. I want to get a certificate in welding at TJC (Tyler Junior College) because it is not to far from my house and I wouldn't have to pay money for a dorm. I would only have to pay for gas back and forth. I grew up in a single parent household with my three younger siblings. I work as a ranch hand at W4 Ranch and Coulter Cattle Company. I have been working as a ranch hand for the last two years and have learned the meaning of hardwork and dedication because nothing in life is gonna wait for you. You are always just gonna have to reach out and grab it. You always need the drive to go out and accomplish what you need to accomplish. I have also learned about how you must always have respect and be well mannered. Tons of kids in my generation also think that they know it all. I however know for a fact that I am still young and have plenty of things to learn from the old and wise. I want to go into a career in welding and will do whatever I have to do to get there. Almost everything that is manufactured in the world requires some type of welding whether it be the frame to your car or the supports for a building everything needs welded. Lets face it with time tons of things break too whether it be an attachment on a tractor or a pipe on a pipeline. Welders are not just wanted, they are a need for the world. I plan on making a posititve impact in the world by either fabricating or repairing things that people need in their day to day lives. I do not know exactly what I am gonna be welding or where I am gonna be welding but I can promise you with my hard work ethic and my mentality I will make a positive dent in this world one way or another. I truly do believe that hard work ethic and mentality means a lot but the most important skill one must always have in order to leave a positive impact in the world is people skills. I believe in a rare thing in this day in time. I still believe in having a firm handshake and looking someone in their eyes will take you a long way.

My name is Juan Juarez and I am a senior at Hawkins High School. I am wanting to pursue getting a welding certificate at TJC. I come from a low income single parent home with my dad watching me and my three siblings. My mother walked out on me and my siblings when I was 10 years old after getting addicted to hard drugs. That time was difficult for me and my siblings because we always began to feel that it was somewhat our fault and would even have kids at school make fun of our situation of not having a mother figure in our lives. We would regularly try and get into contact with our mother but she would either not answer or calls or even get mad at us for calling. Sometimes even saying mean comments such as "I wish I never had kids" or "Yall aren't my kids". Those kinds of comments going towards a 10 year old boy and his younger siblings definitly aren't the words kids want to hear from their mother. Not long after our mother ended up getting sentenced to prison in Huntsville, Texas for arson charges. That was a very difficult time for me and my siblings seeing our mother on the news for doing something so irresponsible. Old teachers would come up to us in school and throw pity on us for the situation that we were going though. I overcame this adversity by playing sports and beginning to weld in Ag classes once I got older. I played football, powerlifting, track, and even some baseball. I also had my family for me to back up on. I have one amazing dad who did his all to keep me and my siblings with a roof over our head and food in our stomachs when all the odds were stacked against him. When everyone thought he wouldn't be able to do it he always found a way. My dad is my biggest hero taking me away from all that bad influence and making me into an honest young man. I am a needle in a haystack in this generation. I still believe in respect and manners and holding the door open for a lady. While I did have all the pressure on me to become a bad person, I ended up taking all of that and making me a better person. At the end of the day I still believe in having a firm handshake and looking someone in the eye can mean alot.

My name is Juan Juarez and I am a senior at Hawkins High School. I am looking to get a certificate in welding and pursue a career in that field. I have welded at school in my Ag Mech class and have noticed that I have quite the talent in that field. I am passionate about a career in welding because I believe that it checks all the boxes in what I wanna do. I want to work outside with my hands and be able to learn things that I didn't know before. The money is also a big picture in the situation, because at the end of the day who doesn't like some Benjamins? I come from a single-parent home with my dad and my three siblings living with me. My dad having to do everything on his own has definitly put us in a low-income situation. I have worked as a ranch hand for the last two years for W4 Ranch and Coulter Cattle Company. I have learned a ton about welding when it comes which rods to use and how to properly cut and fit metal. I have welded all sorts of things wether it comes to welding hay rings, gates, or even attachments on tractors. I do believe that the classroom teaches you a ton of these things not everything can be taught in a classroom. I have messed up a lot of times but in the end it is all about how you respond to these challenges that separates you from other people. I have learned that you cannot keep your head down and mope around the whole time. If you don't take advantage of the moment it is not gonna sit around and wait for you to get your stuff together. I have gotten frustrated working on projects but you cannot let that affect the way that you work whether it be with other people or working on it by yourself. I have learned to work and to work hard for the things that you want in life because if you don't who will? I have also learned that the key to being succesful is to always have a friendly demeanor, get in contact with people, like to talk to people. I often think that people like to over complicate things when the real key to getting somewhere is to have a nice firm handshake and look someone in their eyes.

My name is Juan Juarez and I am a senior at Hawkins High School. I am wanting to go into a career in welding. I am wanting to go and a certificate at TJC (Tyler Junior College) because it is not far away from my house and I can commute daily to where I don't have to pay extra money for a dorm. Everyone always has their motives which is the reason why the push themselves forward every single day. What motivates me on a daily basis is my family. I come from a single parent family with three siblings staying at home with me and my dad. I am the oldest sibling and will be the first highschool graduate in my family. I will also be the first college student in my family so I am trying to be a good influence on my siblings and give them a good example. I was always told by my family that I would never go to college and how I should just go straight into work after highschool such as the oilfield or in a manufacturing company nearby. Everyone that has known me and has worked with me knows just how driven I truly am. Employer have told me how hardworking I am and that just motivates me even more because it lets me know that I am stepping a foot into the right direction.I want to go and get my welding certificate and go into work and work my way up. Pursuing an education is important to me because I don't just have a goal, I have a mission, a duty I need to fufill. My siblings and I have been through so much that I can't just give up now it isnt just a duty to myself, it is a duty to my siblings and to everyone that has doubted me. I wanted to go get a welding certificate from TJC because it is a very affordable college and there west campus is soley focused on the industrial trades with a high likely of getting you a job after completion! I have been applying for tons of scholarships in order to get this done, I have always been a very driven person and will do whatever I have to do in order to get it done. You can see that I am just a kid in a low income family looking for a chance.

My name is Juan Juarez and I am a senior at Hawkins High School. I live in small town Hawkins, Texas with my dad and my siblings. I am wanting to go into a career in welding and am planning to get a certificate from TJC. I have not applied to TJC yet because I come from a low-income single-parent family and want to apply for tons of scholarships before I apply to TJC. I have worked for two years as a ranch hand at W4 Ranch and Coulter Cattle Company and have often gone back and forth between both places during the week. So with my work experience I have participated in tons of group projects. The first summer that I started working on the ranch we had to build miles and miles of fence. I was working with a few people that had never worked with barbed wire fence. I had to take initiative and I had to take it fast in order to get this fence done. I took the time and gave every person a task to do. I was trying to make it like an assembly line. We began to work on this fence and we were getting it done quick. Two people would go down and drive the post while the other two would run the wire. Then when the other two were done driving the post they would begin putting the clips onto the post in order to keep the wire connected to the fence. I do however think that it did put a ton of toll on the people driving the post compared to the people who were running the wire. What I would want to do if I did it again is to switch the people out so that everyone is fresh moving onto the next section. I will however say that it was a positive impact because we did end up finishing the fence really fast so we could move the cows into a different pasture.

My name is Juan Juarez and I am a senior in Hawkins High School and I am wanting to go into a career in welding. I have chosen welding because it is something that I find interesting and would love to learn a lot about. I also love the creative aspect about it because there is a lot of people that can weld but can they fabricate? In order to truly be a good welder you need to know how to be able to think outside the box. You can't just combine the metal you need to learn how to make it work best. The reason that I planned a career in welding is because I think it's interesting but there is also some money to be made as well. Who would wanna go into a job without the money looking right? At the end of the day we all like some Benjamins! I know for a fact that I will be succesful in this trade because I know the type of person that I am. I know for a fact I am not gonna let someone outwork me. I will always strive my best to be the hardest working one on the jobsite. I am also real quick to learn because the mistake a ton of people make is they think they know it all and try not to listen. I know that I don't know a lot but I will always work my hardest and do my best to learn. I also don't guarantee that I will get it first try but once I do get it down it is not leaving my head and I promise that I will be the best at it, just give me a month or two to get it down! In my opinion a succesful life is having things that are paid off. I don't need a big house or a nice truck just something that keeps me dry and takes me to work everyday. I will be succesful because I just know the type of person that I am and I know I am always gonna strive to be the best. I don't care how I have to do it wether it comes from working in the blistering cold or the smoldering heat I will get it done. I am a young kid in this generation who still believes to look someone in their eyes and a firm handshake.

My name is Juan Juarez and I am a senior enrolled in Hawkins High School and plan on attending TJC after graduating in May. 1. I am wanting to go into the welding trade and am planning on getting a welding certification at TJC after I graduate. I am passionate about welding because when I was going through a rough time in my family it always kept my mind off of it which I will go more into detail on it in question 3. I started welding in the Ag Shop at my school when my friends older brother would work on projects me and my friend would go and weld in the booths waiting for his brother to get done. 2. After my trade education I am wanting to go into the field and work however I need to get ahead. I am willing to work in the cold rain or blaring sun. I am perfectly willing to travel and go as far as I need. Whenever I save up enough money to get my own equipment I am wanting to do little side jobs on the days that I don't work. 3. I live in a single parent home and it has been my dad on his own with me and my three siblings since a young age. My mother abandoned me and my siblings when I was 10 years old and it left me and my siblings heartbroken. There was multiple times we would try to call and she would tell us how much she hated us and how we "Weren't her kids". My siblings and I still kept trying to see the best in our mother no matter what she did to us. My mother did eventually get on hard drugs and start to do a lot wrong. She is now in prison in Huntsville for arson. She now tries to regularly contact me but now it is too late to take that stuff back after all my dad has had to go though in order to provide and protect for me and my siblings. I ended up getting over all of this by working and being creative in my work. I also had my dad and my siblings to heal with me so it ended up all working out. My favorite thing to do was always comparing my welds to my friends and having a little friendly competition that came with some bragging rights too! Im not trying to make nobody feel bad for me im just a kid asking for a chance.

1. My name is Juan Juarez and I come from a small town in Hawkins, Texas and live in a single parent home. I am looking to go into a career of welding. 2. I am interested in welding because it is something that I am genuinly good at and is just so soothing to be able to use your brain and come up with solutions to make something work. 3. I have worked for two years as a ranch hand and have had to weld a lot of "different" projects such as rusty hay rings, rusty cattle pins, and tractor buckets. The hay rings have probably required the most amount of creativity with either having to cut out a bent piece and replace it back or heat it up with the acetylene torch and get the good ole mallet and get it out. I will also say that the funnest thing that I have welded up was a 14 foot long Hay Trailer that had three docks that you could lay hay up on and you wouldn't have to get a tractor to get the hay off because the docks were held by a lever that you could pull that would tilt the docks down and flip the hay off. So you could drive to wherever you wanted the hay to drop off and drop off one bale at a time and flip it off wherever. The reason that I built it like that was because I was building it in a Ag Mech class to take to the Houston Ag Mechanics show and it was the customer who wanted it that way. 4.Before you can start to do anything you should always have a plan. My plan is to apply for as many scholarships that I can to raise enough money so that I can go to TJC and get a basic welders certificate. I am sure that you are aware that graduation can be a very overwhelming time for High school students so I am taking it upon myself to get myself ready for when that time comes. I have worked as a ranch hand for two years and have loved getting to weld on pipe fences so I knew that welding would be what I wanted to do, The first part of my plan that I acted on was trying to find out where I wanted to go and I figured that TJC (Tyler Junior College) had a West campus that was mainly used for trades. I went and toured the welding facility with my school on a field trip and absolutely loved it and loved even more how after completion they help set you up with jobs. Now was the hard part of the journey with me figuring out where I wanted to go now it was time for me to get the funds. I went and filled out my fafsa and have began to fill out scholarships. My plan after getting my certificate from TJC is to get a job and keep my head down and work from the bottom up. I am open to traveling and doing whatever a company wants me to do. 5. Yes I am 100% positive that any adult in my life would recommend me for this scholarship because I am a hardworking kid who has worked for almost everything he has. I will always keep my word and believe in a good hand shake.

Before you can start to do anything you should always have a plan. My name is Juan Juarez and I come from a small town in Hawkins, Texas and live in a single parent home.. My plan is to apply for as many scholarships that I can to raise enough money so that I can go to TJC and get a basic welders certificate. I am currently a senior in Hawkins High School and I am doing everything I can to get to graduation! I am sure that you are aware that graduation can be a very overwhelming time for High school students so I am taking it upon myself to get myself ready for when that time comes. I have worked as a ranch hand for two years and have loved getting to weld on pipe fences so I knew that welding would be what I wanted to do, The first part of my plan that I acted on was trying to find out where I wanted to go and I figured that TJC (Tyler Junior College) had a West campus that was mainly used for trades. I went and toured the welding facility with my school on a field trip and absolutely loved it and loved even more how after completion they help set you up with jobs. Now was the hard part of the journey with me figuring out where I wanted to go now it was time for me to get the funds. I went and filled out my fafsa and have began to fill out scholarships. I will still be working as a ranch hand as I am going through school so I can pay for my gas and day to day needs outside of school until I eventually complete my certificate program. My plan after getting my certificate from TJC is to get a job and keep my head down and work from the bottom up. I am open to traveling and doing whatever a company wants me to do. I do plan on whenever I get enough money to buy my own equipment and tools and doing little side jobs whenever I am not working or I have a day off. That there is the Plan to my Work and now it is up to me to work my plan. I am a very dedicated kid I just need the chance so that way I can put the work to my plan.