Descriptive Essay About Eddie Rivera

Mentor Whom I was looking for

Eddie Rivera is a man from Puerto Rico Island, he is currently executive coach in ER Enterprise. He could be a great mentor for anyone who easily give up, who already have given up or who need advices. He can give advices because he had already been to harsh obstacles in his life. First of all, He is from blood of military and dancer. His father was in military while his mother was a flamingo dancer. He lived just normal life as normal people live, not very rich nor very poor. In 1973, Eddie Rivera decided to move to Los Angeles to take break. He did not know English at all, nor he did not know how to communicate with Americans. Since he was in dream of learning English and get a job, he had to learn English

No matter how long it is and how hard it is, you can not just give up. Giving up for your dream is the most unwise choice to make. When Eddie Rivera came to Los Angeles, he had no idea what English was, but to follow his dream of learning English, and have a job in United State, he studied hard. As he continues his career in many jobs, he have gotten many scout calls from hotels such as Bellagio Hotel, MGM Hotel, and Four Seasons Hotel. If he had stopped learning English due to shock from getting fired from Bank of America, he would never got calls from those hotels. You should keep follow your dreams and believe yourself. You can not just give up for one

It is not who you really are, but you have to let the circumstances refine you. If you have dream that you really want to fulfill, do not give up. Many circumstances will stop you from your dream, but do not let it define you to stop. When you know yourself well, you must know where your path is. All of theses teaching from Eddie Rivera speech had change my thoughts about how circumstances does not really matter. You can just go on whatever way you want to go. I am a really timid person. For example I look like I do not have interest in class because I seem to have no questions nor avoid eye contact with people. I am not familiar with have eye contact with people whom I really do not know because ever since I have little bit of Korean accent when I speak English, I do not want to look funny to someone else whom I really do not know. However, after Eddie Rivera’s speech, my thoughts about given circumstance totally changed. From now on, I have to challenge myself to interact with people because since I am in hospitality, I have to get used to work with