A PUBLIC HEALTH GENERALIST OBSERVES

A PUBLIC HEALTH GENERALIST OBSERVES 3 Executive Summary It was my entrepreneurial spirit that ironically drove my postsecondary academic career. A decade of barbering funded the cash tuition payments from 1994 to 1997 when I was a Humanities and Social Sciences major at Auburn University of Montgomery. I conferred a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in 1997. It proved to be a totally different path than my original 1988 study plan as a Business Administration major at Tuskegee University. I continued to use my business acumen as a sales manager and pest control technician, two jobs that relied on individuality. Upon returning to school I had a new confidence and I wanted to be an academician despite my lack of cash flow. That was 2007 and within a year I had earned a Master of Arts Education. Most relevant to the present was despite my 2008 conferral I was still disgusted with the process of acquiring a teaching certification and even more disappointed that substitute teaching hours were non qualifying. I continued my studies and borrowed more money. It would be several years before I completed my second masters degree, which was a Master of Science in Administration. Despite not conferring my second degree I continued my studies strategically acquiring credit hours to meet specific industry requirements. These were the years that defined me as a professional student/scholar-practitioner. My continued studies exhausted my professional studies student loan allotment. I soon found a policy that extended funding beyond the professional studies limit to the health professions limit to those seeking a terminal degree in public health. Upon completing a few classes in the Benedictine University Online Master of Public Health I knew I was on the road to becoming a public health generalist. This culminating internship resolved the utter disgust I felt in 2008 when I realized the additional time needed to acquire teacher certification. In 2019 I spent six therapeutic months observing administrative functions of teache