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Current Occupation:<\/strong> Renewable Energy & Data Center Developer, Intersect Power
Current Location:<\/strong> Ottawa, Canada
Program:<\/strong> Bachelor of International Business\/15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“For me the experience of learning a second language provided immense personal growth that helped shape my professional interests. I no longer use my language training on a day-to-day basis but the experience early in my career played a huge part in directing me towards my current profession.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

How has learning a language influenced your life?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For me the experience of learning a second language provided immense personal growth that helped shape my professional interests. I no longer use my language training on a day-to-day basis but the experience early in my career played a huge part in directing me towards my current profession. I went into the BIB program without knowing what I wanted. Learning Spanish and going on exchange abroad was an opportunity to travel, challenge myself academically and personally, and learn to appreciate new cultures, challenges and experiences. During my exchange I travelled extensively all over South America. I fell in love with nature and developed a passion for protecting the environment. This drove me towards my current profession of developing renewable energy all over North America. I came out of the program with a very clear purpose and have been able to turn this into a job that I love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":1447,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Patrick","cu_people_last_name":"Schnarr","cu_people_initials":"PS","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[44,69],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-1446","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni","cu_people_type-spanish-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Minor in Spanish","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1446\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}