Career, Career Interests, and the Value of a College Education
Career, Career Interests, and the Value of a College Education
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Career, Career Interests, and the Value of a College Education
Univeristy of Phoenix
GEN/300: Skills for Professional Development
22 May 2005
I am currently employed as a software integration technologist with Motorola. The division I work in develops software used to identify persons, usually for law enforcement purposes, through fingerprint, palm print, facial, and demographic matching technologies. My job is to integrate these technologies into a single, fast, and easy to use system. Specifically, I code the workflow engine that allows the separate technologies to function as a single system.
Instead of moving from company to company, changing jobs every few years like many of my past and present co-workers have done; I have been working at the same company for the last 18 years. I started at the bottom, in a data entry position while attending college classes in the evening. I worked my up the corporate ladder,