Let us start with the basics. My name is Cory Peden, I am in school full-time at Century College pursuing an AAS degree in Information and Telecommunication Technology (ITT). After this semester I will be one class away from graduation. While going to school I work part-time in the food service industry, and am an intern with Greg Schulz at StorageIO.
IT was not my first career choice, or second. When I first went to college back in 2007 I wanted to become a photographer, and travel around the world taking pictures of nature or architecture. After a year and a half of bad choices I was suspended. Lost not knowing what I wanted to do with my life I took a year and a half off. During this time I had become a certified trainer at work, and found I liked teaching people new things. This lead me to pursue a degree in education.
This lasted for about a year when I saw the direction education was taking, and all the red tape that goes behind being a teacher. I did not want to go into a field that measured your success based on one standardized test, and not take into account conditions of the schools, or special needs some students might have. I also believe the whole education system needs a revamp, but that is a topic for another time.
Giving up on school, I tried my hand at management, but because of events happening in my personal life, I could not take the pressure, and was not mature enough for that much responsibility.
Everything turned around when one of my friends, who is an IT professional, showed me blade servers he was working on. He explained the concept of visualization to me, and how you could run multiple things on one single machine. This sparked my interest, and I started asking him questions. After a couple of hours of this he finally told me that I should enroll in Century’s IT program.
Two years later, I am now on track to graduate by the end of the summer term. Last semester, I was on the Dean’s list, I plan to take my CCNA certification test within 3 months of graduating. My end goal is to become a consultant, and/or run my own datacenter.
Looking forward to creating conversation.
Till next time
Cory Peden
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