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Up close and personal
Wayne Milliar knows there are no shortcuts to success.
Milliar enrolled in college to please his parents. His parents both had successfully completed graduate school, and he didn’t want them to be disappointed in him.
“I didn’t want to be the black sheep of the family,” Milliar said. “But I didn’t really want to be in school.”
Milliar ended up leaving school and moving out of his mother’s house. But that newfound independence didn’t work out very well, either.
“I kept hearing from older people who didn’t get an education and they all told me not to waste my life,” Milliar said. “I began to realize that the grass wasn’t really greener where I was. I began to realize that anything worth attaining was going to take some hard work.”
Milliar re-enrolled at St. Petersburg College, but this time he brought a new attitude. He moved back into his mother’s home, and he re-focused on his educational goals. He studies architecture at SPC, and plans to graduate with an Associate in Arts degree in 2009.
“I don’t have room for failure anymore,” he said.
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