Success Stories

Individuals featured in "Success Stories" have used Career Services and participated in activities that are helping them to be successful as students and as current or prospective employees. We encourage you to read their stories and gain inspiration for your own success.

Justin Grimmett Status: Senior Major: Economics

Career Services helped Justin get an internship that led to a full-time position. Justin obtained his internship through the Fall Job & Internship Fair held by Career Services. When he graduated in May, he transitioned to a full-time position with Wells Fargo.

Justin's Story

When I was in high school, I was an average student with an average job. I did what was expected and never went above that. My father told me a saying one day that I say every morning "I will do what others won't so I can have what others don't." I began going beyond the means of mediocrity and worked for a marketing company during the summer of my freshman year at 18 yrs. old where I made $10,000 working 20 hrs/week. With the success of that job, the General Manager of a Toyota dealership heard about what I had done and offered me a job with the company next summer. I had never sold cars before let alone knew anything about cars but I took the job anyway. The summer after my sophomore year at 19, I was able to make another $10,000 in 66 working days. I was then offered to come back next summer and work at the dealership. That next summer after my junior year at 20, I made $16,000 in 64 working days. My friends and family could not believe that somebody at my age could make this kind of money in one summer. To tell you the truth, I surprised myself. Then I thought, if I was successful working with these two companies, I should be able to do the same for school. Since I took on that mentality I achieved a 3.6 G.P.A., became a teacher assistant for the economics department, and received an internship. The idea behind this was I wasn't lucky or better than anybody else, I realized what I was capable of and with persistence, I was able to achieve and make things happen.