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| Hip in Highlands County? Today’s young professional
eats, sleeps, and breathes their chosen careers, leaving little time
to get out and meet new people or cultivate new business contacts.
Even if you make time to get out, do you know where to go? Do you
have anyone to go with?
Contrary to popular belief, there are young, hip professionals
living and working throughout the Heartland. There are few organized
opportunities that cater to this generation’s professional
and social needs.
Until now.
In 2003, the Sebring Chamber of Commerce designed a committee to
meet the social and professional needs of young people throughout
the Heartland. YP’s mission is pretty straightforward: To
promote and advance the interest of the young professionals within
the community through social and professional development.
The vision for YP's is to build a strong professional and social
circle that both natives and transplants can instantly engage in,
in order to meet their professional and social needs.
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| A Letter from our Chairman |
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Eggs, sugar, yeast, salt, shortening, vanilla, cinnamon,
water and flour; these are ingredients I used when baking bread. I
took ingredients like those and made different types of bread for
10 years in our family bakery. I didn’t learn to bake on my
own. An experienced baker took the time to teach me how to bake. What
a good feeling it was to eat something that is freshly baked, but
it wasn’t always tasty. There were frustrating times when I
would forget an ingredient or two, the taste and feeling wasn’t
very good, it became a waste of money, time and energy.
Patience, understanding, effective communication, courtesy, effective
listening, a hard work ethic and community involvement; these are
ingredients I use today as a young professional. Keeping these ingredients
fresh are very important in my career. It can also become a waste
of money, time and energy when these ingredients aren’t fresh.
Whether you’re baking bread, pastries, cookies, or becoming
a banker, doctor, realtor, you can learn from others and it’s
never too early or too late to learn a new skill.
Your Heartland Young Professional organization is in the business
of helping professionals within and for our community. Each current
and new member is an ingredient to our success. Without meeting you,
I can make a true statement and say, “Your experiences, ideas
and knowledge are different than those of our current members.”
Those are your special ingredients that we need and want in our organization.
I want to give a BIG “GRACIAS !” for visiting our NEW
webpage. And if you have a sweet tooth for professional growth and
fun, then I want to personally invite you to our next event.
I wouldn’t like to end without taking a few lines to say “THANK
YOU” to our wonderful and hard working board of directors. I
appreciate and admire each one of them. “2006, We’re Doin’
It !” Tu Amigo y Presidente,
Mario A. Trevino
Chairman |
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