Hey all :)

 Hi, I'm Rocky!

    I'm a freshman here at LBCC. I work at Dutch Brother's in Salem and have 4 younger sisters. Pictured is me and my girlfriend of 3 years, Holly. She is my light, my motivation to push forward. As well as my girlfriend, I also love football and clothing design, those are my passions. I enrolled in this class because I am interested in marketing and I hope to use it in my future career and my current youth group. I am not a business or marketing major, I am using this year to finish out my required credits before transferring to Pacific University next year to pursue their Sports Communication degree while also taking graphic and apparel design classes so that if I decide to go back to school I will only need to go back for a year or so to either get a degree in graphic or apparel design.

    The thing that really draws me towards this class and marketing in general is the ability to use it on social media. Not necessarily advertisements but the thought of dedicating an entire page to your brand or company/organization and having people follow it because they appreciate your work and what you do. I want to hone in on these social media literacy skills as I am running the social media page for my youth group for the state of Oregon and I am on the marketing committee for the organization internationally.  I have already touched on some of the things I do outside of school, but I truly am so passionate about my youth group. It’s not a religious thing, more of a self-help thing for young men that we want to be better men. From ages 12-21, we focus on 7 of the virtues of good men and help coach members on how to do that. I am currently one of the 3 heads of the state of Oregon for the organization, running the social media page for the state as well as designing all logos and graphics used by the state. I am driven by this organization, currently campaigning for the election of the international leader of the organization in a few years.

    Another passion of mine that I already have touched on briefly is apparel design. I design clothes for fun all the time. At my work (Dutch), we do a “Buck for Kids” charity day. As part of it, we were tasked with making shirts to wear at the stand to promote the charity we partnered with Darian’s Gift. I volunteered to design the shirts (left) and people loved them so much that I still see employees wearing them to work. My goal with this is to have a side hustle-style clothing brand on Instagram or Shopify. I want to use this passion in my career, I hope to be a clothing/ sports uniform designer for Nike. My dream project is to create a football uniform for the Oregon Ducks.