Profile: Daniel Waller Jr

About Daniel Waller Jr : This is an American male, that did not graduate from an advance learning institution of design, lost in the school system, did not excel in any particular studies, mostly sub-average, kind of drifting in school, had viewed art for slow students, so I stayed away from this field, did find interesting hard work in the woodshop, but only lasted one semester in Junior high school, took a semester of drafting which was hard, but worked hard and felt inspired to create something from my mind, did not get enough of both, the school system did not offer any of these classes in high school, if offered would have brought out that creative side out. Realize after adulthood that these traits would have surfaced if had access to the equipment, but the school system could not afford such expense, the trait did surface outside of school, at home, there was a yearning to release ideals that would come to me in whole realistic dreams in my head that kept me in this dream state not wanting to awake, it was a place that I could go to at night and in daydreams, looking back at this it developed into more daydreams that keep me occupied, which may be the reason of being a loner. This developed into a need to get these ideals out of his head but he could not express it by drawing, which lead to taking drafting course in junior college, it was hard work, staying after school every day to catch up with other students that had completed the assignment and left before the class was over and being older than all the other students and having a hard time grasping the concepts but the tenacity to stick to it, this was the turning point in understanding where he was meant to be, this paid off, the second semester was free for the courses since qualified for academic scholarship each semester, the creative trait start emerging took an art class the teacher was helpful in seeing that there was something special she fertilize the thrist and encourage to develop and feel confidence in work hard, this exceeded her expectations while in her courses, continue to emerge and took welding classes, Mr. Brown made clear that no one was going to get an ‘A’ out of his class because there was a student that was in an Apprenticeship program at Chrysler and that he would be the only one that would be getting in ‘A’ out of the class, It was expressed to him that this student would not be able to continue in the class and would have to drop it if he did not have the possibility of obtaining ‘A’ out of the class, The student was under the impression that he had to maintain a 4 point average in order to continue with the scholarship Mister Brown had already saw his ability and really didn't want him to drop the class so he made a deal, he would have to continue to work hard, Mister Brown was not giving up any points and the student couldn't seem to please Mr Brown what won Mr. Brown over was bringing a sample of another teachers work and comparing it with the student each time Mr. Brown choose the students work which then solidified his 'A' for the course and the student discovered he could bring his creativity to the welding class room, Mister Brown was opposed to student using the materials to make “art” work but he allowed this student because he saw the creativity and artistic value in this piece of work that he asked the student to keep it for display. After the student graduated the school, there was no transition to or a job in either of the welding or drafting fields so the student was in limbo as to his future. Looking back if classes that were thought were a waste of finances, then that path might have been clearer than ever before. If those classes were offered while attending junior high and high school, that was the first detour to the life that should have been, the second is when finding their path of learning to open the door for those dreams and ideals that were standing at the door, at the time, going to this prestige’s school, he was working a full-time job and after that helping his parents to take care of his two nephews, when his mother found out that her son had done the most terrible thing to her grandson, after they telling her what happens, they slept with her, that morning she woke up with the side of her face melted, in that short time she had a stroke, going the to the bathroom she fell off the toilet and bump her head, rush to the hospital, the pressures were building to an unbearable point because he had to give up his dream school to take care of his mother and his nephew because his father was paralyzed to care for wife and grandsons for what his son did to his grandson and his wife needed care that he was unable to give.
Mostly self-taught, his major achievement was researching patents, completing the patent search, doing the actual technical drawings and has successfully granted a utility patent as the sole inventor.
because he has discovered a need to create and found the path of getting ideas out of his head which makes way for other ideals to enter, by making them real, putting those small sketches on paper and thinking them out in longhand how the sketch wants to come to life and in technical sketch form, making a 3D drawing and finally bring to life, making a scale model of the infant ideal that he has created and awaiting the next phase of giving birth to the ideals by mass-producing the ideals for the public.
He's a dreamer who dreams outside of the standard box, but has learned in the box and finds that when inside the box don’t work then, he does what comes naturally, going outside the box and getting that high feeling of success.

 

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