We had the good fortune of connecting with Andrew Schmidt and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Andrew, what is the most important factor behind your success?
The most important factor behind my success is that I care about others!!! This is a lifesaving invention that I am bringing to market to save lives!!!
I also tried to save lives for 33 years at my job as a social worker at youth corrections in NJ!!!
I worked 21 yrs at their group home, 8 yrs at their youth shelter and my last 4 years in the youth jail!!!
As I am retired now, I am focused on bringing my lifesaving invention to market and also getting some of my music into a good FILM, as I have been playing guitar since I was 10 yrs old!!!
How can the public resist a LIFESAVING INVENTION???

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I care about others and I always try to do the right thing!!! (which I taught my daughter) I was a social worker for 33 years at youth corrections in central NJ trying to save the lives of abandoned juvenile delinquents!!! I spent 21 years at their group home where we kept the kids in school and got them part time jobs as I taught them to fish, cook, play ball, lift weights, record their own non-profane music, but most importantly, how to become respectful self-reliant adults in society!!! Many of those thanked me out in public years after they left the program!!! I spent 8 years at their youth shelter where I saved an 18 yr old girl’s life who was scratching her wrists as she cried on the floor daily!!! My heartless coworkers (including my boss) advised everyone to just ignore her, as they thought she was just looking for attention!!! But I knew better and I got her to admit that she had been raped by her step-father since she was 9 yrs old!!! Then my bosses had me confront the Mom and stepfather who denied the charge!!! But just one month later, the mother kicked the stepfather out and moved her daughter to Florida where they lived happily ever after!!! That 18 yr old girl sent me the sweetest card when she left the shelter as she thanked me for my help!!! She was afraid all those years to tell her mother as she feared that she wouldn’t be believed!!! I am in tears of sadness and joy as I relive this story!!! My toughest challenge at work was working with nasty lying coworkers!!! I had to fend off a false charge of Neglect at my job in 2005 where I was being framed to get fired!!! But thank God that I found a copy of the incident report which proved that I was OFF WORK on the day of the incident!!! Had that charge stuck, I would have lost my job and pension 19 years ago!!! I overcome my challenges with hard work!!!
I have to admit that I am most proud of my gorgeous daughter, Sarah!!!
She is an angel and will soon marry TYLER ADAMS who is Captain of the USA World Cup Soccer Team!!!
They live in England as he now plays for Bournemouth after a year with Leeds United and 3 years with Leipzig in Germany!!! He’s a nice young man!!! (now worth over $40,000,000 at just 24 yrs old)
I am now looking to license my lifesaving invention, as I wrote the patent myself!!!
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Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
My friends know where my favorite vacation spots are!!! I prefer a nice BBQ chicken backyard dinner in secluded gorgeous outdoors vacation spots that face west to enjoy a gorgeous sunset with a nice campfire as we await the stars (and UFO’s) to come out!!!
I cannot tell you you exactly where, but I love the hidden lakes of northeast MAINE, the gorgeous coast of the Chesapeake Bay in VA, and the rocky Rhode Island coast!!!
My family and friends prefer the quiet settings of the gorgeous outdoors where the noisy crowds cannot bother us!!!

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
My parents and my daughter were everything to me!!! I spent ALL of my free time with my daughter growing up!!!
I do all of this for them!!!

Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9khjS0Q0-o

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh7ym69fhgo

Other: BenchPressNeckGuard@gmail.com (where to order BENCH PRESS NECK GUARD)

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