 If there's a will, there's a way. The drive is always there to be a civil engineer. I worked at school here on the Gold Coast and finishing high school I work with my father's business as a laborer and met my wife and we started a little family. After working for a number of years I felt like I was something that I still wanted to achieve. I've always wanted to be a civil engineer and so I decided to go back to study and I did it through the Gold Coast Institute of Tafes which transitioned into Griffith University Bachelor of Engineering. It was more of a drive internally no one in my family went to university. At the start I honestly did feel like doing the engineering degree was an impossibility. If I could just put my mind to it and give it a good crack I'd get somewhere and I always felt like this is where I'm going this is the reason why because of my family I'm gonna do it regardless. Griffith University helped me a lot they took me seriously they knew my circumstances and they knew what I was trying to do. Griffith taught me resilience it taught me key values of working hard. I remember when I got my results back I was I was really emotional and the first person I called was my wife. I wouldn't have done it without her. Currently I work for the City of Gold Coast as a senior project manager in the beaches and waterways team. I project manage some of the coastal infrastructure projects like seawalls from inception to planning to construction and completion. There are three types of people in the world the person that makes things happen the person that watches things happen and a person that wondered what happened. If I can do the degree the way that I did it anybody can do the degree it's just a matter of hard work I really do hope that can radiate to my kids and they can take it on board.