Donald Weeks:
CLASS OF 1983
Marcellus High SchoolClass of 1983
Marcellus, NY
SUNY College at OswegoClass of 1995
Oswego, NY
Durgee Junior High SchoolClass of 1980
Baldwinsville, NY
Palmer Elementary SchoolClass of 1977
Baldwinsville, NY
Elden Elementary SchoolClass of 1977
Baldwinsville, NY
Donald's Story
Life
When I graduated from high school in 1983 I went to Onondaga Madison Boces in September 1983 to learn financial clerical topics such as doing bookkeeping, typing, filing I completed the program in March 1984. I had a several month period to wait to get into a sheltered work program. I felt I could not handle a regular job. I was in the sheltered program from October 1984 to July 1989. I had been pounding the pavement for three months before I landed a job with a mass appraisal firm named Cole Layer Trumble. The company was doing a data collection project for the townships in Onondaga County. It involved data collectors going out to properties and gathering infomation about homes such as number of bedrooms, the type of house such as a colonial. Also a drawing of the house was made. I was hired as a clerical worker. I checked the parcel cards for completeness and the square footage was calculated. I did this job from July 1989 to August 1990. I then went to Onondaga Community College from August 1990 to May 1992 to get an Associates in Science in Business Admini...Expand for more
stration which would then allow me to transfer my course credits up to State University of New York at Oswego so I would not have to go there all four years of my college career. I got my bachelors of science degree in Accounting by May 1995. I had registered for an Masters of Business Administration in Business Administration with an accounting concentration. I completed the coursework in August 1996 and retook a comprehensive examination because I failed a part of it. I had to pass this examination to graduate from college. I retook it in December 1996 and passed the Comprehensive examination. I attended the graduation ceremony in May 1997 and received my Degree. I went through numerous temporary agencies looking for temporary work assignments until I could get a permanent job. in August 1997 I got a long term temporary work assignment which lasted until about March 1998. The assignment was then terminated for a few months. I came back for a few weeks in June 1998 after doing some short term temporary assignments. I was hired by a cable trap manufacturer named ARCOM.
Register for Free to view all details!
Yearbooks
Reunions
Register for Free to start a reunion event!
Photos
Register for Free to view all photos!