Michael Johnson In The Military

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Who is Michael Johnson? Well, he is a dad of two amazing children, a husband to a wonderful wife, and a well-loved oldest brother/son of 7 children. He is a computer programmer who loves what he does, and has been very successful with it. He is a man with a dorky sense of humor, who claims that he was a nerd before it was cool. And lastly, he is a man who finished attending the military a few years ago. I, as one of the amazing children, got a chance to sit down and talk to him a few days ago to discuss his time in the military, and how he had the chance to come of age, because of it. I found out that although he didn’t think that he came of age at all while in the military, some of the challenges he had to face proved otherwise. Well, one of the first orders of business is which military branch he attended and why. When asked …show more content…

He said that his job in the military was communications, but he didn’t like it very much. In fact, he said that if he could change one thing about his experience in the military, he would have picked a different job. He said that he didn’t really like the people in communications, and that that made his job more difficult and less enjoyable. In communications, Michael would set up network connections and all of that type of stuff in communications. So in a way, doing this job in the military prepared him for when he would leave the military. He has to deal with difficult people sometime who he has to work with in his job, so the military taught him to be able to have the patience that he needs to have with those people. This job also helped prepare him since he still works with programming and creating applications which is the sort of information that he was working with in communications, so although he already knew how to do that kind of stuff, he got to have the opportunity to see in a different way how the programming could be