A student from Alabama who walked 20 miles to work during first day as his car broke down has been rewarded for his perseverance by the CEO of the company.
Think about the situation, it’s the night before you’re meant to be starting a new job. You’ve got everything sorted, but then your vehicle breaks down and you can’t discover any other way to travel the 20 miles to the job.
In such situation, people would just call up and tell that there was no way they could get there. But Walter Carr is not among them.
Carr, a 20-year-old student who resides in Homewood, Alabama, set off walking and slogged through the middle of the night to affirm that he didn’t disappoint his new employer.
Eventually, word got back to the CEO of the company – who was so moved by this incident that he gifted him his own car and started a GoFundMe page for Carr, at last count, had raised around $8,500.
Carr was starting a new job with removals firm Bellhops, and had to get to a job at a woman’s house in the town of Pelham. After failing to discover a lift, he realized there was no other alternative than to walk it.
Along the way he was picked up by the police – two times – to ask him where he was going. One set of officers bought him breakfast and a lunch to go, another one took him some of the way, but ultimately both were impressed with the sheer determination.
Carr informed USA Today: “I’ve never been that person that gives up, I’ve just never seen myself doing that. I can only be defeated if I allow myself to be defeated.”
He eventually arrived at the job early, and the woman whose things he was meant to be moving was so impressed by the happening that she said that he could go and have a rest upstairs if he needed.
No chance, Carr set straight to work.
