One of the most difficult challenges I have ever faced is Mario. There I said it. It’s a virtual world where you’re supposed to beat a huge, magical, dragon with multiple lives and unlimited resources. I get killed by the walking turtle that was clearly ahead of me. However unrealistic this scenario may be, there are some real life aspects. Each of us, like Mario, has to overcome a series of obstacles before we can accomplish our goals. Paul Ryan is no exception. The road he has traveled to get to the point he is at and the one he has yet to embark upon is like a Mario game, full of obstacles.
His adventure begins with his birth. Paul Davis Ryan was born on January 29, 1970, in Janesville, …show more content…
Following the death of his father, Ryan 's grandmother moved in with the family because she had Alzheimer 's. Ryan helped care for her while his mother commuted to college in Madison, Wisconsin. After his father 's death Ryan received Social Security survivors benefits until his 18th birthday, which were saved up in order to pay for his college education.
He attended Miami University in Ohio, majoring in economics and political science. He graduated in 1992. After graduation he began working as a marketing consultant for a family-run branch of a Wisconsin construction company. He entered politics a few years later, working as a legislative aide for U.S. Senator Bob Kasten. In his early years working on Capitol Hill, Ryan supplemented his income by working as a waiter, as a fitness trainer and at other jobs.
A few months after Kasten lost to Democrat Russ Feingold in the 1992 election, Ryan became a speechwriter for Empower America, a conservative advocacy group. Ryan later worked as a speechwriter for Kemp, the Republican vice presidential candidate in the 1996 United States presidential election. Kemp became Ryan 's mentor, and Ryan cites him as a "huge influence." Ryan then worked for U.S. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas before returning to Wisconsin in 1997, where he worked for a year as a marketing consultant for Ryan Incorporated Central, his relatives ' construction