{"id":14705,"date":"2016-07-13T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2016-07-20T10:26:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:26:22","slug":"first-aid-is-valuable-in-every-situation-says-young-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/first-aid-is-valuable-in-every-situation-says-young-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"First aid is valuable in every situation, says young entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just last week, Aurora\u2019s Chen Liu was standing poolside in Newmarket when he was approached by a little girl with a nosebleed.<\/p>\n

He immediately sprang into action, grabbing the requisite pair of rubber gloves and a roll of paper towels and getting right down to business.<\/p>\n

Sure, it was probably the less glamourous side of being a lifeguard, but it was all in a day\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

The recent Aurora High School graduate, however, is hoping for a bit of a change of pace, taking advantage of Ontario\u2019s Summer Company program for enterprising young students and putting his skills to work founding First Responder First Aid, which aims to certify people in this community in the art of first aid. <\/p>\n

\u201cI stumbled upon this program after having the typical camp job in the past two years and that was not doing me justice,\u201d Chen says. \u201cWhen you\u2019re young, you like to go on adventures and take risks. For me, everything fell into place because I am a lifeguard for the Town of Newmarket and, to me, First Aid was just a baby step.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just needed to get a couple of certifications, buy my equipment which, thanks to the Summer Company program, I was able to afford, and just set up shop.\u201d<\/p>\n

When he considered what he might do in applying to the program, the answer seemed obvious. First Aid training is always a useful and handy thing to have under one\u2019s belt, no matter what the situation. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith small businesses that are starting out with just a little money, they don\u2019t know what regulations they need and a lot of them get fined because they don\u2019t have the proper regulations in place,\u201d says Chen. \u201cAdditionally, this is something good for mothers at home, or anyone who stays home, or goes to work. There are a lot of accidents that occur at home with kids, a lot of accidents that happen at work with co-workers, and it is just a great asset to have.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, enter Chen to the rescue. <\/p>\n

When asked what first interested him in becoming a life guard, he jokes that it was all about the \u201chero aspect.\u201d When you get a job as a lifeguard, you don\u2019t go into the job expecting things to happen, but you have to have a level of anticipation. Nevertheless, when something does happen, he says there is a bit of an \u201cadrenaline rush.\u201d<\/p>\n

The little girl\u2019s nose bleed may not have been enough to get Chen\u2019s own blood pumping, but he rose to the occasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf my ego was a little bit smaller, it probably would have,\u201d he laughs. \u201cThe joy lasted for about 10 minutes before I would let her go back into the pool.\u201d<\/p>\n

His $1,500 grant secured, he used this seed funding, along with $1,000 of his own money to get the company off the ground. While there was a cost to go the extra mile and get his own certifications as a standard first aid instructor and a life-saving instructor for emergency first aid and all levels of CPR, so far his biggest expense has been equipment, such as mannequins for demonstrations.<\/p>\n

While he says he enjoyed every second taking the requisite courses, he needed to keep his eye on the end goal because, as far as courses go, the possibilities are practically endless. The biggest challenge was deciding when to stop. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re just starting off with your own business, you have to do everything from marketing, to creating your own courses, and there was also a lot of website building,\u201d he says. \u201cAfter spending 20 hours on my website, I probably could have paid someone off for it, but these are the regrets you can only have after you\u2019re done and you realise how much time you have spent on whatever. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think entrepreneurs these days have these great ideas and I think it is very gracious that Summer Company is able to help those entrepreneurs actualize their ideas. I know a number of them are successful, some of them are not successful, but then again, I think anyone can agree with me when I say experience is the greatest way to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you would like to learn first aid through Chen Liu\u2019s First Responder First Aid, visit his website at frfaservices.com, email him at chenliu@frfaservices.com, or give him a call at 647-535-2766.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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