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Jim Dunman Research Paper

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People have others that they admire like a friend, teacher, coach, or family member. The people they look up to are very important and help influence them in their lives. One influential person in my life is Jim Dunman because he is hard working, respected, and talented.
First, Jim is talented and has taught his children about racing dirt bikes. Jim has taught all the necessities needed to be able to race dirt bikes. As the time went on he showed how to fix and service the motorcycles. His sons were able to learn from him to improve in their hobbies. He and his family bought a 1949 Willys Overland pickup to restore for their first car. He and his family worked on the car restoring the frame and paint, how to fix their hobbies instead of being selfish and not teaching others. Jim has set goals to show his children that anything is possible. At a fairly young age he was able to get his licenses to build aircrafts.
Jim is highly respected around his family because he had served in the military, and was enlisted for six years. He is successful …show more content…

He has influenced his sons tremendously to become an engineer like him. He has been an engineer for 20 years in the plastic industry. He tells them all about the machinery he is working on, what went wrong with machines, and how to fix them. Jim shows what hard work is by being the head mechanic and oversees all the maintenance to the machines. He tells all the managers of the manufacturing plants what needs to be done to fix the machines. If he is not there the machines are not fixed. With his job he travels all over the world to five different continents. He has to leave his family on Monday and comes home Friday night, about 45 weeks out of the year. He shows hard work because when he comes home he puts the effort and time in to spend with his sons and do what they want before he leaves

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