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Former High School Spanish Teacher + Lacrosse coach in Massachusetts, Texas and Tennessee. (13 years) Founder/CEO of remote document translation company: Blaine & Gonzalez LLC (14 years) Married (15 y
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About Justin
So, to tell my story, I have to talk about my company, Blaine & Gonzalez, LLC, which is a language services company, so it directly relates to the teaching of Spanish:
Blaine & Gonzalez, LLC is.....
*An Amazon-Certified Desktop, Remote, and Print Publisher.
*A US Federal Translation Vendor (GSA since 2015)
*A 100% Fully-Remote Company since before the Pandemic made it cool
*Based in a house outside Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
*A woman-owned, minority-owned business owned and operated by husband & wife team Dr. Margarita Corral-González of Salamanca, Spain and Mr. Justin Pickering of Winchester, Massachusetts, USA.
The "B" is B&G stands for Blaine - Justin's Father's middle name.
Justin's Dad was a Waterford Crystal Sales Executive in the 1990s. His Mom was a middle school English teacher at McCall Middle School in Winchester, MA where Justin learned Spanish from Gigiola Panico, his 8th grade Spanish teacher.
Like a lot of kids at age 18, Justin felt tired and confined by small-town life. Everybody knew one another and everyone knew one another's business and they were good people in a small place, but Justin knew there was something MORE out there, beyond the boundaries of Winchester.
So, his mother made him apply to 15 colleges in 1997. but there was only one that resonated with him: Tulane University in New Orleans.
After attending Tulane in NOLA and meeting some really interesting characters, being Vice President of his class and being chased past a giant fire truck for telling a story about a fraternity prank gone bad in the school news paper, Justin became a high school teacher in Massachusetts.
From 9/11/2001 and the fear we all faced that year, to the football field, Justin taught high schoolers and got told "Those who can't do, teach." a lot.
From 2003-2005, Austin, TX was the setting of the story. Awesome Latino graduate student companions, learning about amazing stories by Cortazar, Borges, Cervantes and Dario, just got back into teaching once he had his Master's Degree from UT-Austin.
2006: Westford Academy and the Grey Ghosts. A school that sounds private, but it's not. It's public. And Justin was a lacrosse coach, loved running the track with his Freshman team who went 10-1 that year, robbed of a perfect season by a bad call.
2007: Justin was admitted to Vanderbilt University's #1-globally ranked PhD in Spanish Literature at the time. He was excited and thought he was on his way to becoming a literature professor.
Little did Justin know that fate would have other plans.
2008-2010: Great couple of years working start-ups, helping to raise several million dollars working on key green energy issues, a television project, and being in charge of research and communication in Spanish and Portuguese.
When all of the sudden, while teaching in a public school classroom one day: BLAM!
The lights go out. Incapacitated and dizzy, Justin looks up and sees the faces of his colleagues standing around him and the shocked, terrified face of the student who had just assaulted him in an unprovoked manner.
Nashville Diploma Plus School in Nashville, TN was part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation program aimed at assisting at-risk youth to gain back lost school credit.
Justin was soon after diagnosed with PTSD and unable to teach in a classroom again, a job he loved very much, despite the ups and downs, long hours, and low pay.
So, unable to work in a traditional work environment, newly-engaged to his wife Margarita who was getting ready to graduate Vanderbilt, Justin said to himself: "What am I gonna do?'
That was in 2010 in a little apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts.
One, one-page, $25-dollar translations over 14 years has turned into millions and millions of words served to customers like Amazon, JD Sports, the DEA, FBI, 27 public school systems (IEPs for kids with disabilities), and lots of amazing journeys and stories for Team B&G, made up of:
Challenge Nyakuritsika
Musab Abdalhadi
Tarek Nahabet
Dr. Margarita Corral
Joey Wehbe
Bryon Pickering (Unofficial Board Member!)
Justin can no longer work in a typical work place (even though he worked at United States Postal Service for one year we told him not to!)
So, B&G is a company that has no walls, no co-working spaces, no brick, no mortar and only one door: the door with the sign of our original logo.
So, in conclusion, I would still be a classroom teacher if I could...
But a very unfortunate incident occurred years ago that prevents me from working outside of my home.
(Medical Records available to support this claim.)
So that's my story... It's an interesting one. I can still teach just fine from home and I am grateful that the remote work revolution has begun because it is perfect for someone like me!
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Hello Future Students,
This is my chance to convince you to work with me.
Uh-oh... I mean... I'm totally unprepared to answer this question! Unless... Hang on... (reaches into backpack, pulls out notebook.)
Ah, ok! There they are! My old notes from 13 years of high school teaching of Spanish in Massachusetts, Texas, and Tennessee, USA!
I was the "cool teacher" who drove my bosses crazy sometimes b/c I would actually listen to my teenage/high school-age students instead of automatically get them in trouble for the "bad" stuff they did.
I also went to REALLY good schools for my subject: Spanish. I graduated from Tulane in 2001 with a BA in Spanish; from University of Texas at Austin in 2003 with an MA in Spanish Literature/Linguistics and I did 2 years of a PhD in the then-#1-ranked doctoral program in Spanish Literature/Linguistics at Vanderbilt University.
I've been to 23 countries, self-funded, for language research.
And right now, I am working behind the scenes with Dr. Eric Burger, President Joe Biden's chief tech officer, on some communication software ideas.
I also founded a document translation company called Blaine & Gonzalez, LLC, that works on IEP translations for kids with disabilities.
So my lessons contain all that experience and expertise. They are organized, clear, focused on YOUR growth as a student, and with your parents' satisfaction in mind. A teacher is a helper. We are there to assist students on their life journey by conveying the essence of a subject matter to them as best we can.
Well, I offer some of best-in-class Spanish lessons on the Internet, as evidenced by my academic pedigree and experience.
So allow me to guide you through your Spanish curriculum. We can work on the standard one and add custom elements that you think would benefit you on your personal journey.
What sets me apart as a tutor:
*I was an actual high school teacher for 13 years.
*I understand how to communicate well with young people/students.
*I speak Spanish, English, and Brazilian Portuguese, so I can help LOTS of you in your native language.
*My mom, brother, father and wife were or are teachers in public school (elementary, middle, and high) and university! So our family has about 75+ years of teaching experience in it.
*I am a service-minded manager/leader, so when tutoring you, the session is ALL about YOU and YOUR growth as a person.
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