{"id":12316,"date":"2012-01-17T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12316"},"modified":"2012-01-17T09:48:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:48:02","slug":"hes-a-businessman-by-day-cowboy-by-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12316","title":{"rendered":"He’s A Business- man By Day, Cowboy By Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY TAMECA JOHNSON<\/strong>
\n Freelance Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cary White<\/strong> has always been a man with a plan.\u00a0 The desire for security, led him to take the road more traveled.\u00a0 The New York native and design engineer graduated high school, moved to Gainesville to attend the University of Florida, transferred to the University of South Florida then earned a Master’s Degree from the University of Phoenix.<\/p>\n

His plan for financial security was well in place, or so it seemed; then came the year 2003 that put a dent in everything.<\/p>\n

That year the stock market took a dive and along with it, White’s<\/strong> years of retirement savings.\u00a0 “I had stocks worth $43 a share that went down to $3 a share.”\u00a0 White<\/strong> also lost his Executive level position with Avaya Lucent and AT&T.<\/p>\n

With little money and no job, he needed a plan B and it came in the form of a birthday party.\u00a0 “I went to a party on a farm that my son was invited to and the host challenged me to a horse ride.”\u00a0 The horse’s owner told White<\/strong> if he could successfully ride the horse he could have it.<\/p>\n

“That horse was a bad boy.\u00a0 The lady who challenged me had gotten a cracked rib riding it.”<\/p>\n

What the horse owner didn’t know was that White<\/strong> was well trained in horses and riding.\u00a0\u00a0White’s<\/strong> grandfather used to ‘break’ horses and taught White<\/strong> to ride at the age of six.
\n“I climbed on and discovered my roots again,” says White<\/strong>.\u00a0 The woman kept her promise and gave White<\/strong> the horse.<\/p>\n

Word of White’s<\/strong> gift of horse taming spread throughout rural Hillsborough County.\u00a0 He was given a second horse, then a third and before long he had a total of six and a second career in the making.
\n“People would come to me and say I need my horse broken.\u00a0 A parent would spend $30 to $50 thousand on a horse and have no idea what to do with it.\u00a0 As a result, I’d be called to train horses for five-year-old kids.”<\/p>\n

White<\/strong> is not confined to the country.\u00a0 He and his horses often venture into Hillsborough County communities.\u00a0 He’s a regular at the monthly Picnic in the Park in Palm River and gives the kids the opportunity to ride and practice caring for horses.\u00a0 He’s a hit with the adults, too.\u00a0 He says, “One mother told me, you live out in these equestrian neighborhoods and these people don’t want us looking at their horses, much less touching them.\u00a0 Comments like that make me feel real good.”<\/p>\n

White<\/strong> is not the only cowboy in the family.\u00a0 His two sons, Cary, II<\/strong> and Trey<\/strong> also ride and train horses on a private ranch in Odessa.<\/p>\n

White<\/strong> hasn’t totally given up the corporate world either.\u00a0 On occasion, he can be found in a suit and tie giving presentations on website development to Fortune 500 companies.\u00a0 He is also a proud member of Phi Beta Sigma, Inc. (Photo courtesy of Ishmon Johnson)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY TAMECA JOHNSON Freelance Writer Cary White has always been a man with a plan.\u00a0 The desire for security, led him to take the road more traveled.\u00a0 The New York native and design engineer graduated high school, moved to Gainesville to attend the University of Florida, transferred to the University of South Florida then earned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}