Guest Speaker - Erik Hanberg

          Our first guest speaker of the quarter was a man named Erik Hanberg, local author and entrepreneur. Everything began for him at around 2004-2005 when he was working at a movie theater and thought to himself "I can run this place". This is where he started his presentation explaining where and why he chose to be a entrepreneur. Next he began to talk about pay scales and he drew a picture on the board of two different lines on a graph, one was increasing more than the other and it was representing the difference between "normal jobs" which are things that most people go to school for comparing them to thing such as athletes, actors, entrepreneurs, etc. The big difference between the two lines were that the ceiling was pretty much fixed on normal jobs, while the other one had no ceiling, this is one of the things that really stuck out to me. Being in school and pursuing a job with the lower income ceiling made me realize that the only way to make a lot of money without being a gifted athlete or musician is to be an entrepreneur.

          Erik went on to tell us hows he's an author and that he publishes his own books using tools on the internet. He hasn't made a ridiculous amount of money from doing this, however he says he enjoys it and wants to continue doing it. He has wrote multiple books including a Sci-Fi trilogy which he said he enjoys writing the most. Also Erik showed us graph of his income from different sources and this stuck out to me the most, because having incomes coming from different areas means that not each one has to be a huge income and the more you have the safer it ends up being for the reason that if one thing doesn't workout you still have 3 others to support you for the time being. Erik really solidified this in my head that pretty much thats what being an entrepreneur is all about and I enjoyed that. Overall Erik Hanberg was very inspirational, coming from not much and creating a lot out of himself is respectable and taking the time out of his day to share this with us was very nice of the man. It was a pleasure meeting him and I hope our paths cross again one day.