We moved to Kansas when I was starting the sixth grade and I have lived in Kansas ever since. I graduated with a B.S. in Life Science from K-State in 2010. After that, getting a job seemed pretty difficult, so I moved back to my hometown and attended community college for two years, earning an A.S. in Sleep Technology.
After graduating again in 2012, it was still very difficult to find a job. I was depressed and felt a large reason I wasn't getting jobs was due to social anxiety and interviewers perceiving me as having no personality. Having free time, I addressed that by starting a youtube channel where I have conversations with other people about our different perspectives of life:
youtube.com/user/undauntedfilms
In about six months I finally got my first job offer, which was for a lab assistant. It became clear early on that almost everyone working there complained about it, hated their coworkers, thought they weren't paid enough, and often made it known that there was no room for advancement.
So, almost right away, I started looking at other career or educational opportunities. First, I was accepted as an engineering undergraduate. Then, I changed direction and was accepted into the TEFL masters program. Again, I wasn't sure and switched to pursuing a masters degree in Food Science. After taking several courses toward this degree, I was not accepting to the program. Starting at square one, I have decided to try to obtain an undergraduate degree in computer science. I have a friend that works in town as a software engineer and he makes over double what I do, so that was a big incentive and he was a big influence in me attempting this career path.
Really I am looking for some career stability and financial security and don't feel that I have found either, yet. Though my education and work experience has been in biological science, I have always considered myself to be an artist. Guitar was a big part of my life from the time I was nine until graduating high school. In high school, I began painting and have painted off and on ever since. For two years, I was my high school's cartoonist for the school newspaper and have started various projects in an attempt to market my art and comics, which led me to develop a few blogs and websites.
