{"id":89230,"date":"2018-08-06T11:47:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=89230"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T19:29:07","slug":"ucf-student-spotlight-andrew-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-student-spotlight-andrew-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve been told I wasn\u2019t going to succeed in my dreams.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
Through his time as a custodian, a swashbuckling pirate and a character attendant at Walt Disney World, UCF senior Andrew Simpson has never started a shift at his part-time job without strapping on his father\u2019s watch.<\/p>\n
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His father gifted him the timepiece \u2013 which, coincidentally, has Disney roots \u2013 when Simpson started working in 2016. Three decades earlier, Simpson\u2019s father was a chef of Cap\u2019n Jack\u2019s restaurant, which was located in Disney Springs (then Disney Village).<\/p>\n
When Simpson\u2019s father left his job after two years at the restaurant in 1986, his coworkers gave him a watch with an inscription that read, \u2018Love, your CJ\u2019s family.\u2019 He kept it all those years, until Simpson followed in his footsteps when he moved to Orlando from Pennsylvania to start his collegiate career at UCF.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I never would have made my dreams a reality without my family. They have helped me come here and be able to study in the heart of hospitality,\u201d says Simpson.<\/p>\n