Becoming Forbes
5 min readJul 17, 2018
When I graduated high school I was a fairly disliked douche bag named Nick Shannon.
I dedicated most of my high school career to empowering youth in my community through volunteer efforts and my work with the local community foundation. When senior spring rolled along, I was cleaning up the local community awards as well as some seriously competitive national scholarships and recognition. All of it promptly went straight to my head.