Humber graduate began career early
NAUMAN SHEIKH
Most of us have the generic college experience everyone else has. Part-time jobs to help us get that extra cash, parties and late night cram sessions. Noah Borer had a career going by the time he started college.
Borer, 20, is a recent graduate of the Broadcast Television and Videography program at Humber College. He started out in high school as a reporter for an international hockey magazine and a radio host for the sports blog, Most Valuable Network. He did all this by the age of 15.
After working for the magazine and hosting Most Valuable Network, Borer decided he liked doing it so much he would start his own show, The Hockey Ticket.
“I began the website in school and also hosted my own radio for the site straight from my college dorm-room. I had Joel Quenneville (coach of the Colorado Avalanche at the time) once call me to talk from my dorm-room and I thought it was pretty neat!”
Most entrepreneurs will tell you it’s not easy to start your own business. It’s a difficult path especially for someone so young. However Borer feels it has taught him some valuable lessons.
“Starting a business, you really see the true colours in people. Whether it is on the business side of things or the actual fun, sports, side. You begin to realize that many people are just in life to further themselves, and everything they do needs to help them in some way. Not to be totally sinister. Starting a business is great for somebody’s independence. You are able to get a step up in life, and realize what it takes to do things your own way. It’s also nice to be your own boss and not have to answer to anyone.”
Borer currently freelances for a production company in Ottawa while maintaining his own video recording and editing service online and is ambitious to become a television producer in Los Angeles.
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