Benjamin Masters:
CLASS OF 1987
Butler High SchoolClass of 1987
Huntsville, AL
University of AlabamaClass of 1991
Huntsville, AL
Cache Primary SchoolClass of 1980
Cache, OK
Benjamin's Story
Life
Wow. My life? Not what I had planned for or expected, but I wonder who's life is. I will admit that I didn't take the time to enjoy it. I was (am) nerdy and bookish. I was on the Scholar's Bowl team and worked at the mall selling shoes at night and on the weekends. I was pretty dull compared to the high school studs of the movies and the exciting kids I see my kids watching on the Disney channel.
My journey led me down the street form Butler to UAH, where I had an absolute blast during my college years. It was too short in retrospect. A grew a bit out of my shell, and participated in a number of campus activities. I had the pleasure of working with the US Forest Service in Colville, Washington two summers as a firefighter. I had a wonderful relationship with a beautiful, dear woman during my college years, and made many dear friends. I had skilled and talented professors throughout my time at the university.
After college I had plannned on going to graduate school, but fate stepped in and my dreams of earning a PhD in history went away (hopefully only delayed, but...Expand for more
probably gone). I had been working as a waiter at a Wings in Huntsville, and Bob offered me a job in management. With few other prospects, and still smarting from not being in graduate school, I jumped at it.
My time at Wings was enjoyable. After about a year managing a store in Huntsville, I moved to Tuscaloosa and managed the training and HR functions of the company. I am still friends with a number of the men and women I worked with from 1991-1996.
I followed some friends from college to Compass Bank. I landed in Birmingham, and worked there for about 10 years, mostly in jobs in the HR department as a trainer and later a training manager. When the SouthTrsut/Wachovia merger was announced, I made the decision to find a sales job within the bank. I became a commercial lender. During my time with the bank, in 1997, I met the woman who became my wife. We were married in 1999.
I moved from Compass to Wachovia in December of 2005. I am still a commercial lender, though in time I think I would prefer to get back into the HR function, specifically in a training capacity.
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