MIS Beginnings

I grew up in a very small town in central Utah.  Throughout my life, I was raised in the Mormon Church.  With that upbringing, the only thing I ever wanted to do was serve a mission.  I knew at the age of 19, I would get out and serve the Lord for two years, anything after that was sort of hazy.  Sure, I wanted to be a rock star, or a famous athlete, or an astronaut, but what kid doesn't?  I remember going through high school not really knowing what i was going to do after I went on a mission except go to college.  Well, I achieved my goals and went on a mission.  After my mission I had planned to go to Snow College and then to SUU, since they were the places that actually took the time to recruit me.  On the last mother's day on my mission, I made the bi-annual phone call home.  My sister and brother in law were there and my brother in law convinced me to go to UVU instead and just live with them.  I took the offer and started my first semester taking a few general ed classes.  During that semester my brother in law, who is a police officer, convinced me to do the police academy there.  It made sense to me to do this for many reasons so I jumped on board.  I went through the academy and met my wife during that time.  

I got a job at the Ephraim City Police Department and married my wife that same month.  After a few months, we decided that the cop life was not for us and we jumped ship and I went back to school at Snow College.  I decided to do civil engineering and one of the required classes was intro to programming.  This was the class I was dreading most.  This was also the class that introduced a small town country hick to the world of technological possibilities.

I ended up loving the programming class though I continued with studying Civil Engineering.  After a year at Snow, we moved to Utah State to continue with the engineering program.  That semester ended up being one of the hardest semesters I've ever done.  I was at school from 7 in the morning til sometimes 10 or 11 at night.  My friends and I studied all the time yet I managed to pull almost straight C's.  That same semester, we found out my wife was expecting our first child.  We decided to drop the Engineering program and take up an easier schedule.  I wasn't sure what to do so I started looking around trying to find an easy way out.  I decided I would explore the HR career and got myself signed up for some business classes (something I never thought I would do).  I took an MIS class that semester and was sold.  I loved it and was blown away of the fact that I could type some stuff up on notepad and make it into a web page.  In the next few semesters I have grown to love the MIS world, and my mind has been opened up to a whole new world.  I finally have some purpose, some career goal I want to achieve, and I enjoy doing it.  I still did not love some of the business classes (accounting especially), but now I have most of those finished and can focus on MIS classes. 

This blog was created for part of an assignment.  It is supposed to be a blog about the things I learn, helpful websites I come across, etc.  I'm not sure how often I will use this or even if I will use it at all but I guess Time will tell.