3A -Your Entrepreneurship Story

I have not had the opportunity to meet many entrepreneurs, however my boyfriend's father Anthony Scruggs is probably the most hard working and dedicated entrepreneur I know. He started his career by graduating with a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from the University of Clemson. He moved down to Florida because of all the opportunities he had there with theme parks and tourist attractions. He started working for a Universal company and after working there for a few years he realized that he knew more about what he was doing than his boss. After this realization, he decided that he wanted to start his own company which is now known as Service Complete Electric. He is extremely successful now but that is not how it always was. He was a hard worker who managed to work from 9 am to 5 pm, sleep a few hours, then go out to Universal when the attractions closed and work from 10 pm till 4 am in the morning and sleep a few hours and start his day again. He did this for about 4 months and all the hard work paid off. He also never ran his own business before and has had to file for bankruptcy twice throughout his career. He never gave up though and learned from his mistakes to make the company stronger and more successful. Anthony Scruggs is one of the most independent and hard workers I have ever met. There is never an obstacle that he won't face or try to fix himself. He enjoys learning new things and almost all of his house was built with the help from him and his two hands. He still works almost 12 hours a day but he has helped build many popular attractions like Volcano Bay, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, as well as the Men in Black Alien Attack ride at Universal Studios. His hard work has definitely paid off and I love hearing about his progress and his next project that he is working on.

I chose to take ENT3003 because I think entrepreneurship is the coolest job route to take. You become your own boss and can pick a career field that you are interested in and good at. I took this class because I would love to learn the way an entrepreneurs mind thinks and the steps they take to create their own business. In a perfect world, I would love to just work for myself and no body else and I think this is a great class to stick my foot in the water. I hope to learn about different entrepreneurs and the routes and steps they took to get where they were today. Some of the richest people I know are entrepreneurs and I also think I can say some of the smartest as well. I would love to have my eyes more open and aware after this class of all the different opportunities in the world that could use improvements or a better system that would produce effectiveness.