Today, Mr. Igoe and I had a conversation about my final project in English class. It reminds me that I have to spend my last few weeks to work on something I want and I like with my skills. It is the fourth day working on my project today. Golf is my favorite sport and hobby. As previous plan, I wanted to make a magazine about golf form of golf legends and teach people how to swing a golf club effectively, not slice or hook. Today, I was on the phone with my father and he had a conversation about college and future work. It reminded me of my dream and goal since I was a little boy which is Business. Business is a very broad subject and I want to make a magazine about this. It would be interesting instead of reading just articles. All this came from the younger me.
Since I was little I’ve always known I
wanted to enter business. One of my first memories was watching my dad follow
stocks in the living room. I loved the dots, lines, and the numbers with
different colors. By the time I was six, I would sit with my father, listening
to him explain the different symbols, and what that meant for different stocks.
It may seem weird, but ticker symbols and charts give me a feeling of warmth
and excitement.
When I was in ninth grade at Cardigan
Mountain School I got a chance to join a New England stock market competition
created by Fidelity with some of my Algebra 2 classmates. I was the leader for
our team SNILEFTCHED (it’s a hockey thing). Our dream team, Adam Phille, Luke Bennet,
Max King and myself had unbeatable communication while buying in or selling
out. While the other three researched domestic companies, I focused on the
Chinese Stock Market because certain Chinese companies were having a great
year, especially the government owned companies. There were so many companies
doing great after the recovery from the 2008 U.S. Depression. Of course I
called my father for suggestions, but ultimately, I made the decision to buy
the alcohol company Wuliangye. There were many complex reasons for my choice,
but the result was it became our biggest earner! In the end, our team won 2nd
place in New England with a profit of around $100,000.
Throughout high school, I’ve tried to
join any business and investment opportunity that I got. I took a summer Macro
and Micro Economics class at Brown and realized there were some big and
underlying theories out there, waiting to be put into action! Two years ago, I
participated in a Citi Bank internship. I went from the classroom to the field,
meeting complete strangers and facing struggles in the real world.
All this started with the closest person
I know, my father. He is CEO of a large medical company, manager of Angel
Investment Organization, and shareholder of many companies in China. I followed
him on his trips and watched the different business styles of different
business leaders. Since I’m a curious person, I’m usually full of questions
during these travels. It has taught me that I am most interested in the
investment area of business, and developed a sense of appreciation for Angel
Investment. I want to follow in my father’s footstep and become a successful
investor and business owner to return to society what I have been given.
I have a pretty good idea on what I am doing instead of working on business. My father would be very helpful to my final project and I would get a lot of information from him personally since he is one of the most successful and closest person I know. I would also do research about how the richest people in the world became so wealthy and their background stories. I just want to provide people around the globe to understand the basic idea of business and how to use those concept to live a better life.
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