For this final week, we have group projects, hard copy final exams, and one more assignment to post here.
Please post your "stepping stones" assignemnt here. I will explain how to do it in class Tuesday night!
Remember to catch up on any late blog entries!!!!
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I’m still working on Step Three.
(And loving it so far)
I was in Colorado Springs, and it was a warm summer evening. I was playing in the court by my house when I meet my first police officer. The cops were called to a neighbor’s house for a domestic violence call. When I saw them put the man in handcuffs I knew that I wanted to be cop. Watching the officers throw the man to the ground and hand cuff him was really cool. I was only five years old
Seventeen years later I was in college and working at a pizza place during the night and delivering beer during the day. I wasn’t the greatest student in my first attempt at college, and I needed a change. I still wanted to be police officer, but was steered in a different direction by a friend of mine. His name Rich Swanson, he took me on a tour of the Virginia Beach City jail. I feel in love with the corrections side of law enforcement. I put the idea of being a police officer out of mind and applied to the Sheriff’s office. I was hired in less than a month. The normal hiring time for a Deputy is about 5 months. I spent the next five years as a Virginia Beach Deputy Sheriff. During my time in the Sheriff’s office I got married and my daughter was born.
I left the Sheriff’s office in September 2004 for the US Army. I didn’t stay in the Army for to long because I wasn’t feeling the Army life. I got a job doing logistics work for a government contractor. My son was born about a month after I started working for WR Systems. Three years later I was sitting at my desk one day looking at the pictures of my kids and it hit me like a brick. I can’t push boxes around a warehouse for the rest of my life. I need to do something that will provide a better future for my kids. I enrolled in ECPI College of Technology two days later. I’m still working on my third stepping stone and so far I’m enjoying myself.
Life Is A Struggle But I Will Make It
As a young adult in high school there was an incident with a teacher that I had. He was my teacher for Spanish and he really hurt my feeling in front of the class. I only came to class when there was toco bell day. He always told me senorita Gooden el loco en lacabeza. That was not what really got on my nerves what he said that really made me think what I was going to do with my life is what he said next. His comment to me next was that I wasn’t going to amount to anything in front of the class. After that, I was more than determined to get my life on the right track. After he told me that I was more than determined to do something with my life. I did have some pit falls in my life, such as coming very close to death. There was an instant when I was out one night and I was on my way home after a night of parting and there was a car coming down the road and I saw an accident in progress. If I would have come down the road a minute before that car it would had hit me head on. When I came down the street I saw the car cross over the road and landed in the front end of a house. The car flipped over and caught fire and the man was caught in the car. The car blew up and I was unable to get the man out.
From that point I went to school for nursing and did receive my certificate as a nurse’s assistant. My sister cut her finger one day and the blood was gushing out her finger. Once I saw the blood pumping out of her finger, I then realized then that wasn’t my career. Instead I went back to school for billing and transcription . Once I went through my divorce and didn’t really understand the dark side of law I decided to study criminal justice. I want to really understand justice and how the wheels turne.
The life of a failed musician :(
I joined the United States Navy, but this was not a planned stepping stone for me. Once, when I was young, I wanted to be a musician. I started by asking for a guitar for Christmas and when I got it I was so very excited. I was maybe 9 years old but I was eager to learn. A few months after I received this gift along with several music books, I realized I did not know how to “read” music. This was a serious problem and halted my musical career because I did not understand the concept and gave up soon after my dream had taken off.
Later on in life, I had a vision, I decided that I loved computers and wanted to know everything about them. I was going to be the best computer technician on the planet. At the time, only 12 years old, I was very motivated to learn about the computers in school and at home. I began by simply digging into the hard drive of the computers to find hidden information that could be helpful. I did not realize that in doing this I was indeed teaching myself to find where problems could be solved if they were to arise. Soon after I decided my new life dream, my mom bought a new computer, so I ripped the old one apart and starting doing research to find new information about these fascinating machines. My mom wasn’t too happy, but I put it back together, and it worked just fine! Soon, I was taking electronics based electives like digital electronics while in high-school. Not too long after my 16th birthday I decided to become A+ Computer Repair Certified, I still enjoy working on computers but decided there had to be more.
Now I come back to the Navy, this, I want to be my final stepping stone. I joined in 2005 and have since decided not to make it a 20 year career. My troubleshooting abilities of electronics and avionics gear have given me insight toward my final objective. I am now enrolled in the ECPI School of Technology, where I am pursuing a degree in a field extremely similar to my current occupation in the military. I will finish my degree while I am enlisted and wish to wait my time out and return home to Depew, NY. This has been particularly important to me, it has given me a new sense of discipline and I am doing something I enjoy. Electronics is very similar to working on computers, in some instances it is easier and some cases it is harder. Working with electronics, parts cannot just be simply swapped, smaller parts like resistors have to be pulled and replaced. This has given me a more in depth view of the computers I once loved to work on and now, I can mix my two stepping stones to become one.
Im still working on step two
When i was seven i was diagnosed with leukemia and i was hospitalized. While i was in the hospital i wanted to become a doctor because i like to stab preople with sharp objects. I like to see blood running through clear tubes or syringes then putting them into cbc canisters.
When i got out of the hospital i was focused on graduating. I graduated high school in '05. It took me three years to get into college. Well here i am at ECPI College of Technology persuing my associates degree in computer electronics engineering technology.
After i graduate with my associates degree that will complete my second stepping stone.
My name is Courtney Hall. I am originally from Jamaica. Through a series of events, I ended up in Va Beach and have been here for about seven years now. I learned carpentry and have worked in construction building custom homes.
As a child I knew I wanted to pursue a career in engineering. I chose mechanical engineering as my curriculum while attending technical school. Upon graduation from technical school I secured a position with “The Cigarette Company of Jamaica Ltd.”
My second dream in life was to see the world. I was offered a position with a prominent cruise line and decided it was my golden opportunity to work for a world famous corporation and see the world at the same time. I spent four long years working on board ships doing various jobs only to realize it was not all it was cracked up to be and decided it was not for me.
Many years have passed since my life at sea and I have come full circle to the fact that I still want to work in the field of engineering, which lead me to my enrollment in ECPI majoring in CEET.
ECPI has the training and hours to make it possible for me to attain my life long goal. I am proud to say I am a student at ECPI and feel that the school offers all the tools I need to secure the education and credentials to have a successful career in the IT industry.
i was living in seabrook, NH and my mom and my step father got into a huge fight... he hit her and broke her jaw and then she left him and we moved to florida...
I Lived in florida for the next 11 years until my mother became an alcoholic and a drug addict... i could no longer live with her...
I then moved back to new hampshire to live with my family... it was a great time and i began to flourish as an independent adult... i'm here now and it's going great.
As a child, I always knew that I wanted to be a nurse. I remember a video from my best friend's 9 year old birthday party, where they asked everyone what we wanted to be when we grew up. I remember replying, "A nurse just like my mommy." As I grew up, I realized it would have taken alot more than just wanting to be one. I would have to take work very seriously and work very hard for it.
When I was 17, I decided that I wanted to join the U.S Air Force, just like my sister did. To me, I just knew in my heart that it would help lead me to being a nurse. My mom didn't want any more of her children joining the military, so she wouldn't sign for me to join. I was really upset an dhurt by this. In my eyes, I felt that was the only way to get where I wanted to be. I ended up joining the U.S. Navy because my recruiter was really nice and helped me through things. She was definitely wonderful. I was told that I would join to be an It, since the medical (corpsman) field was overmanned.
I joined the Navy with intentions of going to school to be a nurse. While I was really happy about joining, it wasn't long before I realized that it just wouldn't be possible to do while I am in the Navy. It was just three or four months ago that I decided to stick with being an IT. So here I am in ECPI and I feel this is the best decision that I ever could make. I love what I am doing and I don't want to quit.
On a hot summer night in El Paso, Texas back in 1980, I first saw my older brother (Jesus) in his sailor uniform after coming home for two weeks after completing boot camp when I realize that I was going to follow him in the Navy. Although I was only a high school freshmen, seeing my brother in his sharp Navy Cracker Jacks made me proud to be his younger brother and made me realize this is what I wanted to do!
Four years later, I graduated from Bowie High School and decided to follow my first stepping stone, which was joining the Navy. What I was not aware off is that my twin brother Johnny also wanted to join the Navy so we joined under the buddy program. Although we enlisted in the Navy in the summer of 1984, we actually did not report to boot camp until November 1984 which felt like a long time to fulfill my first stepping stone. Finally, on the 23rd of November 1984, I was able to fulfill my first step.
My second stepping stone came a few years later when my twin brother (Johnny) was selected to Chief Petty Officer. When I first saw him wearing his new Khaki uniform, I was so impressed and jealous that I knew right there and then that I also wanted to be a Chief Petty Officer. After 3 years since my brother was selected to Chief, I was able to reach my second stepping stone when I was also selected as a Chief Petty Officer and wear the Khaki uniform. After 23 years of honorable service, it was time for me to finally leave the Navy and start on my third stepping stone which was retire and get back in the civilian sector.
Even though my third stepping stone just started, it has started with a bang! Not only am I working for the Navy again as a civilian contractor, I am also attending college for a different career field then I had while I was in the Navy. Although my last and final stepping stone is a few years away, I am really looking forward to my move and actual retirement from the job labor and enjoy my final days in life!
Every child has a dream for the future some want to be a fireman, police officer, or even a movie star. But for me, my dream was to be an only child. Now many people would say that is impossible since I am the middle child. But when people tried to use logic to make me change my dream, I simply told them that I could still be an only child my brother and sister just had to have an accident. For some strange reason, people looked at me funny after that and I started to spend a lot of time with my aunt Lillian.
Spending time with my aunt Lillian was a lot of fun. She thought me how to cook really good food. After spending time with her, I learned and grew to love cooking. Even though I still wanted to be an only child, I put that on the back burner and wanted to be a chef. I loved cooking so much I took over cooking most of the meals in my house since my mom worked a lot. She loved coming home from work to a hot meal. The older I got, the more I tried to cook different things and come up with my own recipes. But one day when my mom and I talked about my future, she told me how much money a chef makes. From that point on, I didn’t want to be a chef.
Even though I still plan to start my own restaurant and still have hopes of becoming and only child, I again put them on the back burner. Luckily, I still had my love of computers to fall back on. Since I am a gifted student in math and science, computer came easy to me. Plus I knew how much computer programmers made. I started taking as many computer classes as I could. I learned Q Basic, C++, and HTML. Since I was very stressed trying to program computers, I decided to try a different aspect of computers. That is when I enrolled at ECPI for a degree in Network Security and Management.
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