Ever since I could remember I was always fascinated with flying. I remember when I used to live in Ethiopia when I was about six years old my friends and I would hold contests to see who could make the best paper airplane in the neighborhood. You would think that because we were so young the paper airplanes we used to make were not any good, and you would be right. I remember the older kids would always win. They had some secret eight-year-old techniques that they would use that always gave them an edge (which I would later find out was folding in the tip of the paper airplane so that it would stay intact for the entire contest). However that did not discourage me, it planted a thought that I would pursue all the way into college, a thought that would grow every time I flew in an airplane. Initially, I wanted to be an aerospace engineer and improve on the current aircraft of the world or perhaps build the future aircraft of tomorrow but I realized that my heart was not really into the idea of sitting in front of a blueprint of an airplane all day long. So with that in mind, I decided to go into Air Transporation with the goal of working on the business side of the Aviation Industry. This would allow me to stay close to my childhood passion but also give me a route into the business world in which I can apply my interpersonal skills to grow in the industry.
Upon graduating with my degree I plan on going into graduate school and getting my Master of Business Administration. After completion of my MBA, I want to go work for a big corporate aviation company so that I can get a first-hand look at the inner workings of the industry at a high level. With the experience that I would gain from this, I would branch out on my own and try to establish a business that would work closely with other aviation companies and the military in building the aircraft of tomorrow.