Andrew Carnegie's Career

However, unlike Carnegie, he attended high school and went on to attend business school for a short time. The two now had the experience necessary to launch their careers. Despite Rockefeller and Carnegie having dissimilar educations and backgrounds, their career paths were anything but so. Carnegie soon accepted a position at the Pittsburgh Telegraph Company and caught the attention of Thomas Scott, the superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who hired Carnegie as his personal telegrapher and secretary. Working with Scott gave the young Carnegie many of the skills he would later use to generate his success.

SHRADER , 1992). Dodson, then 16 years of age, paid 4,900 dollars in cash with no misrepresentation about his age from the Shraders. Nine months after the purchase, the truck developed mechanical problems such as a burnt valve, as diagnosed by a mechanic. Not having the money, Dodson continued driving the truck despite the problems. A month later, on January of 1988, the truck became completely inoperable and soon contacted the Shraders to request a full refund.

Billy Barker was a sailor from Cambridge shire, England who struck gold in 1862. Billy was Born in England around 1819 as he grew up he Worked with his father as a waterman cutting and logging trees, and working for a sawmill. In 1845 railroads started taking over and the work slowed down in England Billy was losing jobs and money became scarce so he went to North America in search of a new job to keep his funds up. In 1850 Billy worked on a California gold mine in a small town called Lillooet, not having much luck in finding gold so in 1862 Billy barker moved to the area near Richfield to work on several mines that he owned. As Billy worked there he found no gold or any signs, Billy was tired of being unsuccessful so he looked in a canyon where Baskerville now lays, everyone thought he was being silly and called him weird for thinking there was gold down there.

Jorge Felix Cairo Fuentes, advised he is the father of Yusel Cairo Ceballos, (Driver 1). Cairo Fuentes said he was called by Gabilla and told Yusel had been in a crash. Cairo Fuentes related Yusel worked for a lawn maintenance company, but did not know the name of the company. Cairo Fuentes said Yusel worked on Saturday from 0700-1800 hours. Cairo Fuentes said Yusel was very good about getting rest on the days he worked, but did not know what time he went to sleep Saturday night.

Algernon Essay Imagine the opportunity to triple your IQ by a simple surgery. Would you take it? Charlie had that opportunity and took it. Charlie Gordon was a 37 year old man with an IQ of 68, and eventually, 204 as a result of the surgery. Before the surgery, he was a janitor in a factory, working for low pay to minimum wage.

Elmer worked odd jobs and soon sent a letter containing a ticket to Bolivia enabling his wife to come to the states. The family then moved to West Virginia, first living on a farm and eventually relocating to the "city" of Huntington. It was there that Elmer began the first anesthesiologist group in the state, the very same group that my father is now apart of. In 1937, Jimmie Roger Williamson was born in the town of Hamlin, West Virginia, the heart of coal country. Jimmie was one of ten children and never attended high school because he needed to work in the mines to help support the family.

Cadwallader C. Washburn was born on April 22, 1818, on a small farm in Livermore, Maine. (Service) He was raised as the middle child of ten children, seven of which being boys. Having the family library located near his home, Cadwallader was fairly well educated and well-read for his time. Knowing that he, as the middle child, would not receive the family farm, Washburn decided to leave home shortly after he turned eighteen. Washburn worked several odd- jobs including: teacher, store clerk, and survey manager.

He allowed the world to his knowledge, experience, and failures but it’s these monumental events that has landed him a spot in America’s long- lasting history. William Edward Burghardt DuBois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts .DuBois grew up only knowing the influence of his mother, he didn’t have much of a father around being that his father passed away when he was younger. To help his mother he worked in a factory after school to bring in extra income. Despite working he maintained high grades and remained top of his class and also found time to publish his first story in the community newspaper. When DuBois turned 15 he become the first African American to graduate from Great Barrington High.

Accomplishments: Some of his accomplishment include constructing the Wollman Rink in Central Park in six month and only using 750,000 dollars of the 3 million dollar budget. He has wrote many books about his entrepreneurship and how to become and entrepreneur. When he was younger he finalized his first multi million dollar real estate transaction in Manhattan.1996 he gain ownership of

At 16, he became an assistant bookkeeper (biography.com). In 1859, he and a business partner established a commission firm that worked with meat, grains, hay, etc (biography.com). The firm shut down after just 1 year in business but Rockefeller and his partner had made about $450,000 (biography.com). After that, he found a fantastic opportunity in the newly created oil business