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Early one morning a few years ago, I was driving to work. The night before there had been a large windstorm. Utility repair trucks were out repairing the power lines. Just as I was driving by I started thinking, how cool it must be to do that job. When I arrived to work that morning I grabbed a phone book and started looking for some technical schools. I didn’t want to necessarily fix power lines, but wanted to try some other type of cool technical work. After getting information from several schools, I had decided to enroll in the Computer-Aided drafting night program at ITT TEC in the fall of 1996. One and a half years later, I graduated the program with a perfect attendance and a 3.89 GPA. After looking for work in this new field, I soon found out that with this degree you would only be an engineers helper, and there wasn’t a real lot of room for advancement. And consequently didn’t pay enough money for me to switch lines of work. But I was still happy to have learned what I did. One year later. In 1998, I was skiing at mount hood, when I met my lovely wife Nora. She was an international student just starting in the PSU MBA program. We got married one year later. Because of our strong value of education, even before we got married, we made a plan that when she graduates, we’ll switch places. She’ll work while I finish my degree goals. Since the fall term of 1998, I have been attending PSU part time to get a jump-start on our plan. Finally two years later and twenty-eight years old, I can take those darn day classes, with a full-time student status. So now this is what occupies all my time.
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