Help with repairs to get me to the SCC
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Hi I'm William Merzlak. For a year now all I've wanted to do is leave the comfort of my home in sight of a grand scale. It came true after receiving an email of employment for the SCC (South Western Conservation Corps) For the Winter corps unit 12/25/13. I quit my job selling electronics for BestBuy, and spent what funds I had for gear, equipment and small tune ups for my 2002 Subaru Forester.
We'll just last week I set out from my home town in NC, on my way to Tuscon, AZ. While driving up a hill in central Arkansas, The rod, located in the engine broke, and sent pistons flying out my vehicle like confetti. At which point my dashboard lit up like a Christmas tree. I found a nice couple who towed me and my car over a thousand miles home for every penny to my name.
I have spent 2 months preparing for this. It will open me up to conservation programs abroad in which I plan to take. I've never been overseas persay. But this is currently my only way.
I'm a Model and Photographer, 22 years old. I do medieval reenacting in the SCA and try to teach Fencing locally. I Live on my own. Pay student loans. The usual. This was my ticket out and if I miss it. I won't get another shot at it. Travel photography is my passion. I've spent 9 years taking photos. 2 years modeling.
Right now I have to make enough to get the Subaru repaired so I can make it to Tuscon before the start date. I'm already in the unit and have poured dozens of hours in legal work for this and the job market is shot completely where I live.
My friend told me about this site and said it was worth a shot.
The repair costs for a engine replacement is $1600.00 (cheapest quote locally) I can't even transport my camera gear to take photos. That personally is more damaging than a car blowing up.
The SCC pays you to hike and camp for 15 day periods on, 1 Day off. For 3 Months or longer at each go, carrying hand tools and building trails and doing land conservation work. The winter season will be in the Sonora desert. Afterwards the WFF in Australia will take me up. But I need the SCC as a reference for that.
Please take a moment to see some of the photographs I have taken and hope to take more once I am mobile again.
http://merzlakphotography.yolasite.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/William-Merzlak/207323835977909
We'll just last week I set out from my home town in NC, on my way to Tuscon, AZ. While driving up a hill in central Arkansas, The rod, located in the engine broke, and sent pistons flying out my vehicle like confetti. At which point my dashboard lit up like a Christmas tree. I found a nice couple who towed me and my car over a thousand miles home for every penny to my name.
I have spent 2 months preparing for this. It will open me up to conservation programs abroad in which I plan to take. I've never been overseas persay. But this is currently my only way.
I'm a Model and Photographer, 22 years old. I do medieval reenacting in the SCA and try to teach Fencing locally. I Live on my own. Pay student loans. The usual. This was my ticket out and if I miss it. I won't get another shot at it. Travel photography is my passion. I've spent 9 years taking photos. 2 years modeling.
Right now I have to make enough to get the Subaru repaired so I can make it to Tuscon before the start date. I'm already in the unit and have poured dozens of hours in legal work for this and the job market is shot completely where I live.
My friend told me about this site and said it was worth a shot.
The repair costs for a engine replacement is $1600.00 (cheapest quote locally) I can't even transport my camera gear to take photos. That personally is more damaging than a car blowing up.
The SCC pays you to hike and camp for 15 day periods on, 1 Day off. For 3 Months or longer at each go, carrying hand tools and building trails and doing land conservation work. The winter season will be in the Sonora desert. Afterwards the WFF in Australia will take me up. But I need the SCC as a reference for that.
Please take a moment to see some of the photographs I have taken and hope to take more once I am mobile again.
http://merzlakphotography.yolasite.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/William-Merzlak/207323835977909
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William Merzlak
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Hendersonville, NC