Randy Buckley:
CLASS OF 1999
Rosamond Christian High SchoolClass of 1999
Rosamond, CA
ITT Technical InstituteClass of 2009
Sylmar, CA
William Jessup UniversityClass of 2007
Rocklin, CA
Simpson CollegeClass of 2006
Redding, CA
Desert Christian High SchoolClass of 2000
Lancaster, CA
Randy's Story
Where to start? I suppose I should start after high school. Upon graduating from Desert Christian in 2000, I went to AV College for 3 years. I got my A.A. in Piano Performance and decided that pursuing a career in music ministry was a wonderful way to blend my love of music with my desire to serve God.
With this in mind, I enrolled in Simpson College in Redding, CA where I spent 2 great years with some very amazing people who I love dearly and got increasingly frustrated with the music program. They were much more interested in the performance aspect of music than the ministry aspect of my major, so after 2 years of getting nowhere, I transferred to William Jessup University in Rocklin, CA near Sacramento where I believed I would find a school more interested in the church music ministry aspect of a Worship Ministries major. What I got was a bit more freedom in the choice of music I performed, but a performance major it was, none the less.
I spent one year at Jessup before various circumstances in my life that I won't go into he...Expand for more
re more or less forced me to drop out of school and return home to Rosamond. I am currently going to ITT Tech in Sylmar, CA for an A.S. in Computer Networking and I plan to pursue a B.S. in Network Security. If all goes according to plan, I intend, ultimately, to do network security for either a fairly large company or the U.S. government.
If it sounds like I've given up on music, let me say that's not the case at all. I still play piano and guitar as well as singing as much as I can. I'm trying to learn as many instruments as possible and, if all goes according to plan (again) I should be starting a Celtic folk band with some friends fairly soon. It's just that I've come to realize that music ministry isn't about getting a degree. It's about having a heart to serve God and a desire to use music to do that. It's been an expensive lesson, to be sure, but one that I sorely needed to learn, and I'm still learning.
I'm sure that I'll edit this further to include jobs I've had and other details, but I think this'll do for a start. :-)
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