== <parsererror span style="displayfont-size: blocklarger; white"><span style="font-spacefamily: prearial,helvetica,sans-serif; border">Nick Blaney</span></span> == === <span style="font-size: 2px solid #c77larger; padding"><span style="font-family: 0 1em 0 1em; margin: 1em; backgroundarial,helvetica,sans-color: #fddserif; color: black">"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie</span></span> === <span style= This page contains the following errors"font-size: larger;"><span style==="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I am a </span></span><div span style="font-family:monospacearial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px14.4px;">error on line 1 at column 82: attributes construct error senior in the</divspan><span style=== Below "font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;"> School of Business Administration at the University of California, Riverside. Growing up in Vancouver, Canada, my mother brought me into the kitchen when I was seven years old. Early in life, I learned the limitless creativity one can achieve when cooking. I started working in a restaurant when I was 14 years old. Overall, I have spent 13 years in the hospitality industry, seven of which are full time. During that time, I have worked in every single position albeit manager, in both the front and back of house. As a teenager, I watched my father create and successfully operate his own business. My grandfather, uncle, and dad are, or were, self-employed. In a sense, entrepreneurship runs in my blood. As I grew older, this calling became stronger and stronger. In 2013, I decided to return to school to obtain my education so that I may pursue career aspirations of creating my own enterprise or working with a group of people in a startup. One principle my mother and father both taught me was the importance of civic engagement. Growing up, I volunteered for the Harvest Project with my mother, where we assisted disenfranchised families and individuals by delivering goods around the holiday season. In addition, I helped organize fundraising events and volunteered for Housing for Young Adults with Disabilities, along with my dad. Over the years, I have learned that civic engagement is the foundation of being a rendering contributing member of society. In the page up future, I hope to combine my love for cooking, inherent entrepreneurial spirit, and belief that it is a person's responsibility to the first errorconsciously create a positive impact on his or her community. ===</parsererrorspan>
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