Lets try to bring everything up to date......Part 1
(Typewriter sounds) June 2002.... Graduation, the high school exodus.... and the ending of a chapter.....
Flash to now.....June 2006.... Four years out, if things had gone as my "advisor" had wanted, I would have a degree in mechanical eng. science and I would be working at a floor machine in some factory.....note to self, slap Mr. Ambrose next time I see him.....Of course things do always go as planed. I left college after 3 semesters, not happy with what I was doing, I was supposed to be the guy sitting at a computer designing that sort of crap, but was being trained to make it instead. That and my college was horrible to the students, the whole time I was there they lied to me about the computer I was getting, the financial aid I was getting, and that they were going to make changes to the dorms and the dinning hall. So I have no regret in leaving SUNY Canton. But I haven't given up on a degree, more on that later.
Now, for those who knew me in high school, some of you are probably saying, what about music, you were so good at doing musically related things..... This was true, but something happened before my Sr. year. I had some surgery done. I had my tonsils removed at the end of the summer, right before school. The effects to me were not immediately apparent. Things seemed fine as I tried out for the high school musical, Guys and Dolls. I was able to sing every part available, with out changing the key for any of the music. I got the role of Nicely Nicely (the guy with the show stopping song, Sit down you're rocking the boat), and with me being in the Vocal Jazz group I was at the school every night during the week. And then at the end of October, it started finally, I started loosing my range. Ms. Jacobe put me on restricted vocal rest, and got me a singing teacher, to help me try to get my voice back..... it worked sort of... we drop the key of my main song by about 3 keys. Which doesn't seem bad, but it is, trust me. Managed to make out the rest of the year and really didn't sing much after that, so I had plenty of vocal rest.
That was till Ms. Jacobe retired last year, and she went out with a bang, bring back people from as afar back as her first musical to perform, including me and my brothers. I performed from Oliver (I played Bill Sykes) and from Guys and Dolls, but didn't do Sit Down... and I was fine for the most part. It wasn't till I sang with my vocal jazz group that something happened, our finale was "Bridge over Troubled Water", which during the last section, almost everyone there belted, why because we could, and still make it sound amazing, so we belted, and when it was done, my throat was buring, and I knew I had screwed up my voice. The following weeks would prove difficult, as my voice started to go. It made testing for my next belt intresting too. But... Because of that, It's been hard to even sing in church.
On the working front, I've been at Staples in Clay for about two and a half years now. I started on registers, then stated cleaning the store, because our porter quit. And they started noticing that I really knew my tech info, and I was selling more service from the registers then the techs did on the floor. Skip to now, and about 3 other job changes (I have officaly worked in every department now) and I'm the stores resident tech, incharge of sales of service for computers, and working on the computers that I bring in. I'm making about $230 a week, and still have too many bills to pay. But I'm catching up, I should be on top of them by the end of summer, and maybe I can get my car back on the road....you know the one I damaged back in feb.
Well I'll continue this tommrow, I'm feaking tired...
Flash to now.....June 2006.... Four years out, if things had gone as my "advisor" had wanted, I would have a degree in mechanical eng. science and I would be working at a floor machine in some factory.....note to self, slap Mr. Ambrose next time I see him.....Of course things do always go as planed. I left college after 3 semesters, not happy with what I was doing, I was supposed to be the guy sitting at a computer designing that sort of crap, but was being trained to make it instead. That and my college was horrible to the students, the whole time I was there they lied to me about the computer I was getting, the financial aid I was getting, and that they were going to make changes to the dorms and the dinning hall. So I have no regret in leaving SUNY Canton. But I haven't given up on a degree, more on that later.
Now, for those who knew me in high school, some of you are probably saying, what about music, you were so good at doing musically related things..... This was true, but something happened before my Sr. year. I had some surgery done. I had my tonsils removed at the end of the summer, right before school. The effects to me were not immediately apparent. Things seemed fine as I tried out for the high school musical, Guys and Dolls. I was able to sing every part available, with out changing the key for any of the music. I got the role of Nicely Nicely (the guy with the show stopping song, Sit down you're rocking the boat), and with me being in the Vocal Jazz group I was at the school every night during the week. And then at the end of October, it started finally, I started loosing my range. Ms. Jacobe put me on restricted vocal rest, and got me a singing teacher, to help me try to get my voice back..... it worked sort of... we drop the key of my main song by about 3 keys. Which doesn't seem bad, but it is, trust me. Managed to make out the rest of the year and really didn't sing much after that, so I had plenty of vocal rest.
That was till Ms. Jacobe retired last year, and she went out with a bang, bring back people from as afar back as her first musical to perform, including me and my brothers. I performed from Oliver (I played Bill Sykes) and from Guys and Dolls, but didn't do Sit Down... and I was fine for the most part. It wasn't till I sang with my vocal jazz group that something happened, our finale was "Bridge over Troubled Water", which during the last section, almost everyone there belted, why because we could, and still make it sound amazing, so we belted, and when it was done, my throat was buring, and I knew I had screwed up my voice. The following weeks would prove difficult, as my voice started to go. It made testing for my next belt intresting too. But... Because of that, It's been hard to even sing in church.
On the working front, I've been at Staples in Clay for about two and a half years now. I started on registers, then stated cleaning the store, because our porter quit. And they started noticing that I really knew my tech info, and I was selling more service from the registers then the techs did on the floor. Skip to now, and about 3 other job changes (I have officaly worked in every department now) and I'm the stores resident tech, incharge of sales of service for computers, and working on the computers that I bring in. I'm making about $230 a week, and still have too many bills to pay. But I'm catching up, I should be on top of them by the end of summer, and maybe I can get my car back on the road....you know the one I damaged back in feb.
Well I'll continue this tommrow, I'm feaking tired...