This is my 11th year at Landstown and with the school division. I’ve enjoyed it. Working as a security assistant, it’s different every day. There are different challenges, but the positives of our students outweigh the negatives, by far. You get to interact with all the students in a different way and that’s what I appreciate most about the job. There’s a good diversity here.
When I’m not here, I’m either with family or I’m at the church working with different things we have going on in the community. I’m a youth pastor. I’ve been the youth pastor at my church for about 7 years now. I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Theology with a focus on youth ministry and with minors in Music Technology and Drama. I get to work with youth when I’m not here as well. I think that’s what I like most about my job here – I get to continue working with teens in a different way but still on a personal level. With both of my jobs, you’re helping them meet their needs in a different way.
The biggest thing with my work is that I’m vested not just because of the students here at Landstown but because my wife is a teacher; my son is a second-grader; I have nieces and nephews; my sister-in-law is a teacher; and my brother works for the school system as well. So we’re all kind of vested in safety, security and education, and what happens is important for a lot of different reasons.
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