After high school I took a business course in college got my diploma and I was off, off on another direction that is. Young, ambitious, and ready to go, a month after graduating from College I found my first employment in IT services (I took business). Needless to say but I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into, what I took in college wasn’t even close to being relative to what I was working on (except for Microsoft® Office suite) but I adapted, I learned and I grew. I learned how to survive in an industry that I had no previous background in. After awhile however, that ambition, willingness to learn and motivation simmered which lead me to missing out on opportunities of a larger role. Those missed opportunities lead to complacency as I did just what I had to and went home. It was a mind-numbing routine that I was in and although I was unhappy with where I was at with my career I did nothing about it, I sat there waiting for something to be handed to me.
Six and a half years and I feel I have nothing to show for it and that is MY fault. I stopped learning, I stopped trying to improve my skills and learn new ones. If I had of kept motivating myself, pushed myself and really tried to get what I was going after, maybe I would be in a different spot within my IT career.
Maybe...Or maybe there was something holding me back, maybe there was something I was supposed to be doing instead. Maybe my subconscious was trying to tell me something but it took me this long to figure it out. Then one day back in July 2010 it was as if someone walked up to me a slapped me across the face and woke up to see what I was supposed to do:
Pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a police officer...
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