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Greetings my Friends and Family, It's been almost a year now that I've left Oregon. Now, I'm in Boise, Idaho, pursuing my career (which I've dreamnt for, for a very longtime - a little over 2 years now). I'm so happy now that I've accomplish my goal as being in the field of which I've gone to school for. Finally!. It's been a longtime coming and finally, I got a chance on becoming a "Technician" for one of the largest firm in the "MEMORY" Industry. - I'm now in the "Production" phase for the company that I'm working for and I'm very proud to be working for them. Gee, I don't know why I havent written anything for a while, the pull of my personal life and work experience mixed with more revision of my life is sometimes overwhelming. If I logged down all the events which have happened to me and others around me lately, I would not be able to reproduce the strangeness and atmosphere of my timing in life, of which occured when I first moved here in Boise, Idaho or maybe the time I've moved from Hawaii to the Mainland. Striving for my goals as an Equipment Maintenance Technician 1,2,3, & 4 for the second largest firm in the "Memory" Industry is some kind of accomplishment but, I will achieve these goals in the years to come. I do not know that anyone chooses a career in life. It seems that fate or certain outside forces influences the decisions you make in life. These forces change your life from one career to the next until you end up in your retirement years looking back on your life thinking of the “what IF's." I guess I have to open the topic of “My Career” in Hawaii, with me in my teens because my life has turned direction several times since then. Originally I had my heart set on a "trying to make it" career. I was fairly good at it playing both offensive and defensive positions. Unfortunately the outside sources that changed my career goals involved in drugs back then in Hawaii during my teenager and early adult adolense years. Needless to say that messed up career was over. A few years later I entered college (DeVry Institute Of Technology in Phoenix, Arizona) and found a desire to become someone and major in the Electronics Technology field. And, I'm proud to say that I've gotten a degree. I had finally found a career where I excelled. I was happy, enjoyed the professionalism, the freedom and authority that I possessed. This new career fit well with my character and what I wanted to do with my life. I trained people, helped them, watched them succeed and grow. What more could I ask for, the experience had a certain form of excitement not shared by any other profession in the world. The places I traveled if duplicated would take a lifetime of trying, the experience, the honor of serving the industry, all with an adequate wage scale. The outside forces that ended this career during the layoff's in the 2002, which was a downfall for me. To keep this long story in perspective and within the confines of this update, it is easier to conclude that becoming a Technician is not really was an adventure at the point of my life. My family and especially my friends on the net was the knowledge of the area was the need for some family psychological support led me back to Oregon. When I moved there for a brand new start on life itself. After a couple of years, I seek to better myself with the degree I poses, I contacted one of my best friend in the world (Leprechaun) and I interviewed with the company that I'm working for right now said I wasn't qualified or not qualified enough for the job as a Technician at that time. I finally fell back on my electronics background and selected a position with the Company I'm working for right now to be in the "production" phase at first. During my production process, my supervisor indicated that my abilities would fit better on a Technician Level with the degree that I have. Which now, I'm very proud to say that I'm pursuing at this point. I found myself looking for a better position in life. Still within the industry I selected a Technical position with benefits, higher rate of pay, and with the still promised positions of an Equipment Technician. With this company they kept their word and depended on me to fill a Technician position with in a year there. Those amazing forces were at work again. They were not from outside this time, but from within. I presently am in the first year of my lifetime career. Employed at on of the leading industry of Memory. The Classes and self improvement thought classes, along with the time on my job training to get to the level of expertise that I now have. I have a very good salary in addition to the company offers health, dental and life insurance at a reduced rate. The company offers tuition assistance, 401K, retirement programs, and a good working environment. I again find myself in the position of being promised with the carrot of being in a Technician position. This career I can see lasting a lifetime. I enjoy helping people, training them to realize their dreams and successes. However, there is a price for this knowledge. Paid to support my life style that they feel is comfortable. I guess that as I have gotten older, my need for speed, excitement, and adventure as a driving force within my career has been replaced. My outside driving force is my personal life, my need to help to survive. My career rewards themselves spent on my family’s education, best friends, and for my own well being. Am I happy with my own life and with the career paths I have been fortunate to see and succeed with? Yes! Would I do anything differently? Yes! If I did, would I be blessed with the life that I'm leading presently have? I do not know. I do know that my career has been my life, the people I have helped along the way. My payment has been small, with the survival of my life. This fact I would not change for anything. Fate has been a mystical force in my life, and I thank it. Special Greetings To Adrenaline_Hack for the presistent in keeping me in track. Thank you so much, bro! - "G's" for life! - P.I.M.P! This site is dedicated to a few people that have past away in life that I trully love and the influences that they impacted in my life: My DAD - Pedro Concepcion Sr. - I Love You so much, Daddy - There's never a day that goes by that I don't think about you. You've always influenced me in many ways and I still feel you and the discipline that you've provide me and my brother during our stages of growing up. - I Love You, Daddy and I Miss You Alot! My Grandma - Lordes Concepcion - Your teaching of growing will always grow within me. You've always been the strong one in the 'Concepcion' family. The one that would bring all our relatives together on special occasions and made sure "Harmony" is still within. - I Miss You So Much. I Love You Very Much, Grandma! My Grandpa - Cornelio Concepcion Sr. - You've always been sturborn of your saying and ways of life but, I've come to realive that you've tried to protray your way of growing up. I will never forget you. I Love You, Grandpa. And one last person that have a tremondous impact in my life: A.D.B - You've been there for me through thick and thin. I will always love you and my heart will always be with you. Please, don't you ever forget that. - You are my world. I Love You So Much, Baby! Connie Payne McCorkle, 67, of Texarkana, formerly of Bismarck, passed thislife on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at Texarkana. Connie, your love is honored onmy behalf. I missed your voice when you called and I will never forget you.You've help me so much in the past. You'll always find a friend in me. I loveyou, Connie. |