So… I Wandered Off for a Bit At some point, I drifted. Not in a dramatic, “I quit everything and moved to a mountain” kind of way. More like… I opened one academic door, then another, then suddenly I’m deep into GIS, writing papers, and thinking about spatial relationships like I’m plotting a crime documentary. It was good for me.
Category: Education
Learning should not be cruel. But it should never be padded. I withdrew. Not with anger. Not with a manifesto. Just with the quiet certainty that staying would be dishonest. I enrolled in the local tech courses because I needed structure. Real structure. The kind that forces discipline when motivation runs dry. I am paying out of pocket. I am
Progress is not loud. It is documented. This week, I submitted my graduation petition for the Project Management Certificate Program at Folsom Lake College, a program I started in Spring 2024. No ceremony. No applause track. Just a confirmation screen and an email that quietly says, you finished what you said you would finish. That is enough. Why Project Management
Fall semester 2025. The leaves are turning brown, the air is crisp, and so is your bank account balance—crisp because it’s been burned down to ash. Somewhere between the optimism of registration day and the first midterm panic attack, you’re locked in the most brutal contest in academia: waiting for financial aid. It’s the same ritual every term. You wake
So here’s the deal. I’m currently working in IT. Solo. For a water district. I manage the entire infrastructure while answering questions like “Why is Outlook slow?” and “Is this phishing?” (Yes, it always is.) And in between moving servers and mentally moving to a beach somewhere, I started thinking: What’s next? I already have degrees. I’ve done the certs.
So here I am—on a noble quest to become a network and cybersecurity engineer. A digital knight, if you will, except instead of a sword, I wield Wireshark and Python scripts, and instead of dragons, I fight NAT issues and firewall configs that mysteriously delete themselves. And you know what makes this whole journey survivable (and kinda fun)? Two unlikely
This fall, while most people are buying pumpkin spice everything and pretending they like the cold, I’ll be doing something actually bold: going online full-time to Southeastern Louisiana University to kick off my Master’s in Computer Networking and Administration. That’s right. I’m going back to school. On purpose. “Why?” — People Who Know Me Because I like pain. Just kidding