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Wil Leman The Postal Musician Turned Computer Programming Major

Wil found music at a young age, and it changed his life!

Playing in a band for 6 years, he knew early on that it is extremely hard as a
musician to get signed to a big time contract with a label. Through the years he
learned a valuable lesson, that having a back up plan for when your dreams don’t
come true is vital to future success.

Nearly 10 years later he figured out that he wanted to go back to school to be a
chemical engineer. Wil quickly figured out that he didn’t want to be a chemical
engineer, as the career path was very difficult for him to keep up with while
working full time as a U.S. Postal employee. He also realized that while he
loved the idea of the important title of “chemical engineer”, he had no idea
what a chemical engineer actually does.

Fortunately for Wil, he took an elective that lead him into something he loves
which is computer programming! In the mean time, he is still deeply rooted as a
musician and does still produce music just one of his hobbies. Wil is also
getting married to his fiancé, Jen, in October of this year!

Wil is a very good friend of mine, and I am very happy that he wanted to come
onto Dreamers Podcast to talk about being a musician and reaching for his goals
in higher education. I am also honored to say that I will be one of his
groomsmen for his wedding. At the end of this episode, he decided to let me plug
my DJ album, Adventurtorium. You can download it for free, or buy it on limited
edition dual cds for $10. 25% of that goes to Give Kids The World, which is a
great charity that brings children with life threatening diseases, with their
families, down to Orlando, Florida to enjoy the theme parks and stay in a big
house. The kids and their families get a chance to forget about all of their
worries, and just be kids.

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Episode 25
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who is living their dreams

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video this way later on you can see me
trying to take that cap you’re looking

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like I was a song about your vent holes
brick really pretty song at the end

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everything you just hear people throwing
symbols and what the f are you doing

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there and you haven’t messed up there
and it’s very found out it’s very pretty

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song and that gets very for our very
quickly so I’m being a time so welcome

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to the dreamers podcast I’m your host
Joe Pardo and today I’m interviewing

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will loom on women

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oh la la anh Li man low man domain name
lemurs lo mein

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it was living history by pursuing a new
career

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welcome to the show thank you for having
let’s get started by giving a background

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about yourself

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ok I’m a twenty-eight-year-old postal
worker from New Jersey here down the

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street from you

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yeah Jersey Jersey boy I working at the
post office for about 10 years now and

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finally got the courage to finally want
to leave my job and go back to school

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and pursue a career in computers i’m an
avid musician I’ve been playing for

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about 19 years now been quite a few
bands in fact in a band with you for a

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