William Hargrove:
CLASS OF 1987
New Paltz High SchoolClass of 1987
New paltz, NY
Cocoa High SchoolClass of 1987
Cocoa, FL
Clearlake Middle SchoolClass of 1983
Cocoa, FL
Rondout Valley Junior High SchoolClass of 1983
Accord, NY
Rosendale Elementary SchoolClass of 1979
Accord, NY
William's Story
Life
As you can see from the school and work history, I have been a lot of places and seen a lot of things. Since high school, I joined the Army, then the NY Army National Guard. I then moved south and became a manager for a trucking company. I then went back to college to finish my degree and then became a manager in the Wal-Mart organization. After 4 stores, I decided to take my management experience into the booming residential construction. At the same time I started up a business doing Home Inspections. I traveled from company to company doing the construction management. I recently moved a little further south and went to work for a commercial / industrial contractor for the Marine Corps. Here the work is more steady and I am now a project manager and the safety officer. I am going to be pushing full steam to grow my personal business, so that I can retire in a few years.
School
School was interesting. I look back on this time period and realize that these experiences helped to form who I am today. I never really had a stable school life. I went to two elementary, middle, and high schools. At first, it was Marbletown and Rosendale Elementary Schools. Then, as I got older, I attended Roundout Middle in NY and Clearlake Middle in FL. I stayed in FL for the beginning of high school where I attended Cocoa High then moved to NY where I graduated from New Paltz High.
I had pretty good memories from that time period. I enjoyed being with my friends and working on stuff. I did some dumb things, and learned from them.
If you could go back in time and change some things in your life, would you? Of course. But, I cherish the remembrances that I have.
College
Not unlike my school days, my college times were filled with movement and instability. I started my higher education while in the Army. I took courses with several universities during my active duty military time. After leaving the military, I pursued my studies more earnestly. I attended a local technical college and earned an AA and then an AS. I transferred to a 4 year college and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
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Workplace
Work bio - wow, where to start? I guess it started in middle school in FL. I worked for a bicycle shop and video game arcade owner. I assembled bicycles for a little cash and game tokens. When I moved to NY, I started to work for an entrepreneur. I demolished portions of buildings, renovated them, and other miscellaneous work. After high school I joined the Army. I spent 4 years on active duty then moved back to NY and joined the NY Army National Guard. I also worked for myself as an independent contractor doing miscellaneous household repairs and snow plowing. On one of the outings with the Guard I met a restraunt manager with Burger King. I started working with them full time as a manager and I liked it. By this time I was married. My sister-in-law decided to move to SC with her grandmother, so I helped her. Grandma changed her mind about living in there, and left my sister-in-law with the burden of full rent. She called me up and asked if we could move down there and help her with the rent. We did. I applied to a trucking company for a job as a truck driver and they hired me as a manager. I worked for them for 2 1/2 years in that occupation then went back to college full time. During the college years, I worked for the same company as a part-time driver (driving full time hours, but no benifits). It was great, because it gave me a chance to study during loading/unloading times and to not go to work if I didn't want to. I went to work for Wal-Mart after graduating. I was a manager that they used to correct stores that weren't performing very well. Four stores later, I decided to get into the residential construction industry. I worked as a manager for several companies and did well in them. I similtaneously started a home inspection business and created a little extra cash flow from that. Most recently, I moved further south and went to work for a MACC contractor on the Marine Corps Bases as a project manager/estimator and safety officer. The future is looking good. The owner of this company would like me to become a partial owner with two other project managers. The owner would like to retire in a couple of years.
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