It's been short, but great. My final blog

My final blog:

Hello again to all! Well it’s been a busy summer for me with moving, work, and applying for new jobs. I have good news with my adventure of applying for work, and that is a have landed a job with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Madison!! I know in the last blog I wrote I was telling you how much I liked working for the company Crossmark. I like it a lot, working for Crossmark, but with it only being a part time job I needed something more. Crossmark has given me a lot of experience in a short time I had. Even after I got the job at Crossmark in Milwaukee I never stopped applying for jobs. In these times can you really afford to stop looking for that good job? So I continued to pursue a good quality job that I can start a good solid career in, knowing that meant maybe I’d have to move again. Again in these tough economic times can you really afford to limit yourself to one geographical area? My advice is if you can get outside the box and can move try it. Knowing there was a possibility that I’d be moving again I was turned onto applying for Federal work. I applied for Federal jobs in Milwaukee and Madison, with Madison giving me a call to come in for an interview. Well as you can imagine one thing lead to another and bam I got a call with a job offer!! But this is the Federal Government we’re talking about this was a long process to get this job, but in the end it was worth it. So this will be most likely my last blog for MPTC as I will be working full time and going to school full time online. It’s been a short time blogging for Moraine Park, but a great one. Everyone has been really helpful with getting me setup and going with this blog and I hate to see it end with a new semester coming up to blog about. The reason I’m giving up blogging is a fear I won’t have enough time to balance moving again, working, and school. I like blogging it’s a great way to get your side of the story out there and let people know what’s going on here at Moraine Park. For the time being I will be taking online classes this fall through Moraine Park, but ultimately I will probably end up transferring to a technical college down by Madison. Being a traditionalist with taking face to face classes and working full time it won’t be feasible to drive up to a MPTC campus for night classes. But at Moraine Park transferring is another action you can take to help you attain your degree no matter where life takes you, for example me. I’ve heard the transfer process is easy and painless so we’ll see when it comes to that further down the line. Until then I hope everyone has a great fall semester at MPTC. And I’d like to say thank you to everyone for their help, guidance, friendship, and leadership the past year at MPTC, Thank you so much!

update on my summer

Update on my summer

 

Hope summer is going well for everyone! I’m writing today to give an update on how I’m doing in my new surroundings in Milwaukee. My merchandising job is going great! I’m learning a lot and meeting so many new people while doing it. I’ll give you a brief idea of what I do, I service Walmarts and Sam’s Clubs in the Milwaukee area, I do not work for them, I work for a company called Crossmark. Crossmark is based out of Texas and is a very large merchandising company all across the nation. One of the biggest companies we do work for is Beckett. Beckett is the manufacturer of trading cards, football, baseball, magic, Pokemon, you get the idea. Each Walmart’s trading card section size varies; the sections range from 4 feet to 24 feet. The stores I’m doing now have an eight foot section. It’s not too big nor is it too small. Beckett is just one of many vendors we do work for. Each week projects drop into our queue to do. I go at the beginning of each week and schedule all my work for that week, that’s the nice part of the job. Right now I’m working a store in Greenfield and West Allis, both are great stores and I like doing this job. This job has great experience building to it and either one day I’ll move up with this company or I will get another job due to the experience I’m gaining. Well that’s it for this update; stay tuned for more updates down the road…

My New Adventure

My New Adventure

 

Hello again to all! Today I’m writing about a new adventure in my life. Recently I moved in the past month from Fond du Lac to Milwaukee. Why do you say I moved? Well I got a job in merchandising for a large corporate company in Milwaukee. This will give me much needed experience to make it in marketing in the future. If you remember I’m attending Moraine Park to attain a Business Management/Marketing degree. The way businesses are going these days, not hiring without experience, this job will get me that experience that everyone wants. That’s the key isn’t it? When you get out of college and are applying for jobs they all want experience and you always end up wondering how the heck do I get what they need? Well I got a break in my applying for as many jobs as a person can possible do, and one called back for an interview. The only catch is that it was in Milwaukee. I knew when I was applying for jobs that I needed to apply outside of Fond du Lac in the surrounding areas. Since the economy isn’t picking up anytime soon the odds of getting what I needed in a job for experience in town was very minimal.

My advice to exiting students looking for work or anyone who is looking for work is trying something out of the box, like applying a little further than you’d like, but remembering it can be temporary. Or by applying and accepting a job further than you like might mean a start of a new life, sometimes things don’t come as easy as you’d like them to, sometimes you got to do it the hard way.

Anyways I’m down here in Milwaukee and will be for some time, I plan on attending Moraine Park’s West Bend Campus this fall. The West Bend Campus for me is about a 45 minute drive which isn’t that bad. I plan on taking more online and blended classes than traditional. I’ve always liked traditional classes as they work best for me; I know everyone has their preference but traditional style is what I liked and learned the best from. Another example of how MPTC is keeping up with the changing student is that you have options. Traditional classes are now not going to be doable for me, but no fear, as MPTC has online classes or blended which means that it’s a mixture of in the classroom and online. Depending on the instructor you could be online more than in the classroom or vice versa. MPTC is a great place to get an education, if you can’t continue like I can’t right now to do one option there’s more to choose from! So don’t make an excuse of how your life is too busy for higher education, the college for you is right in front of you at MPTC.

End of Semester Wrap

End of Semester Wrap-Up

 

            Well here we are at the end of another great semester and year at Moraine Park Technical College. For me this marks my 2^nd full semester at Moraine Park. It was an exciting year full of challenges, learning, and trying new things. I’ve met a lot of people this past year and hope to stay in touch with most of them as we go onward with our own lives and fulfilling our quest of higher education. This past year MPTC has taught me not to be afraid of trying new things. Things I normally wouldn’t have done like attending the Wisconsin Student Leadership Conference in Green Bay or to be a part of the Last Blast celebration. By doing those two events, out of many, I met so many new people and have learned so much about myself. The things I have learned in and out of college in the past year will help me academically and personally. Here’s my advice to new students or students, who have thought of trying new things, DO IT! MPTC is a great place to get involved. Everyone has one goal in mind and that is student success. Without successful students, MPTC wouldn’t be much of a college would it? All three campuses; Beaver Dam, West Bend, and Fond du Lac, need people to lead student clubs, student senate, help setup events, and to help MPTC be a great place. I’d like to say thank you to all my instructors and classmates for making this past semester/year a great one!