Jeremy White's Biography

In class we interviewed our teacher's old friend to get a feel for what kind of person he was, and to get enough information out of him to write a short bio on him.

Jeremy White, a 33-year-old native Sacramentan whose dreams have yet to be completed. White started out as a boy growing up in Sacramento, he made some of his greatest friends, endured a divorce, had big dreams of being a drummer and had a phobia of sharks. As a young boy, Jeremy White had a reoccurring dream, one that would never end well. He would be swimming in a large tank of water and when he would look down, there would be sharks swimming beneath him, waiting to attack. This dream haunted Jeremy all his life and eventually became the underlying pressure in all his decisions made in life.

As a teenager in high school, White started to develop his musical ear due to his good friend pushing him to discover his inner talent. With this support from someone who was dear to him, he gained confidence in his musical ability and decided that music was his dream career. He became a drummer for multiple bands and eventually started touring with some. Life on tour was a hard one; never any stability and Jeremy often wondered if this display of his talent was even worth the worry he went through. During this time in Jeremy’s life, he started getting the reoccurring dream more and more frequently and caused him to finally put an end to his unstable life. He felt like he was swimming in a tank with no lifesaver and just a cloud of sharks, music sharks, about to pounce on him. This made him see the reality of living in the rock star dream, and how demanding that life was and yet he never really got much back from it.

Eventually Jeremy went into the stable life of a financial planner. He realized that what people needed was that support or lifesaver to save them from the sharks, and he wanted to be that. He makes peoples futures stable and creates an environment of safety around his clients. This dream that haunted him throughout his life has decided on some of the most major decisions in his life for him, and he followed. So while this dream made young Jeremy White scream on all of those nights, it truly has helped him see the path in which he sincerely felt more secure going down.