Today we’d like to introduce you to Adrian Gomez.
Hi Adrian, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I joined the Marine Corps when I was 17 and a half, where I was selected to attempt for a new position called Marine Security Guard, where it was seen as the top 10% of the Marine Corps and what they had to offer. I was screened very heavily at a young age, where I became the youngest class in the history of the Marine Corps to be selected as a diplomat representing the Department of State, where I had the opportunity to work high-detailed security at United States embassies throughout the world. I traveled the world from 18 to 21, where I was primarily posted in Europe for a year, and I was in Beijing, China during the COVID pandemic for a year, which was a very interesting perspective. During this time, I was mentored by some of the most influential and intelligent advisors under the Department of State and the United States Marine Corps. I promoted rank very quickly. My mentors taught me how to invest into real estate and start businesses. During this time, while I was working high-detailed security on behalf of the United States president, I obtained a bachelor’s in international business. I got out of the Marine Corps as a sergeant in the infantry and am now pursuing to become an attorney within the next couple of years and am currently enrolled in law school.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Some of the difficulties that I had to experience was obviously the dilemma of having to mature at a very young age. I had a unique opportunity to understand what it was to serve and to lead in very uncomfortable situations. I also had the privilege of having Marines I got to mentor and even mentor from while having the experience to travel the world at a young age and to see different cultures. However, it was very scary being by myself, having no direct peers, being the youngest in my field, doing what I was doing in a country that did not speak the same languages, and where a lot of conflict arose during the pandemic period in particular. But, through trial we find empathy. Through hardship – and the pressure of those hardships – is where diamonds are formed. Overall, I am blessed and privileged for the adversity because it allowed me to develop into the man I am and to know the importance to serve, to serve not from a place of pride, but from a place of servitude for others.
Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
From my degree in an Associates in Business Administration and then a Bachelors in International Business, as well as my experience serving in the military honorably for five years, I obtained the knowledge of learning how to represent as an advocate on behalf of veterans where I sought to put together as many opportunities and assets available to either active duty military and or military members who got out of the military honorably and provide awareness as to which benefits would be accessible to them. My aim is to ensure that there are no homeless veterans or veterans that struggle with PTSD or other mental transitions in which I seek to allow for a bridge to allow that transitionary period from military life to civilian world as smoothly as possible as I understood these struggles within myself transitioning out of the military and seek to provide comfort and awareness setting up opportunity where my guys not only have the medical help that they need but also allow them to open up doors in regards to different vocational schools or educational schools where they could obtain even a bachelor’s, a master’s, or even a doctorate’s degree like I am pursuing myself in my Juris Doctrine. This is my current aim as soon as I begin practicing in the legal field myself.
Are there any important lessons you’ve learned that you can share with us?
The most important lesson that I have obtained during my journey is the knowledge that we are never born great or exceptional. I graduated high school with a 2.5 GPA and genuinely believed within myself that I was ordinary in regards to my ability. Looking back and stating all of my accolades, I am a firm believer that great things stem from a series of small events. The disconnect that I see with our younger generation is this fear to start or the fear of simply failing, but when you’re younger, or even those that are reading this in their 25s, 30s, 35s that still are unsure of what path to take, my best suggestion that I found is to simply take one step at a time, no matter how small, make micro goals every single day and pursue them, and eventually you take that one step at a time, you work one hour a day, and you’re going to look back and realize that those small efforts eventually compounded into some example like within myself where once a 2.5 GPA to everything that I mentioned to now becoming or aspiring to become an attorney in my 20s, that didn’t just start there, but it happened from a series of small events brought together.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: Adrian.gomez___
Image Credits
Adrian.gomez___
