Michael Davis Interview

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My interview starts with my dad, Michael Davis. He attended palm coast community collage off and on for 2 years. He learned information technology and creative writing while at collage. In his life he was a private investigator, and business owner.
In his collage years, he learned about creative writing, which he says helped him when he was a private investigator and when he needs to write things for work. He says it “gives me the tools that I didn’t have before to explain exactly what was going on and where everybody was in detail.”

His original plan was to go into law enforcement until one of his professors told him that he was wasting his time studying law enforcement and that he should go into computers. He then switched what his life
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He was based in Al Assad, Iraq, where he was Deputy Information Assurance Manager for the AOR, (AOR means area of responsibility, which was the country of Iraq) there he did a lot of network security. While he was there for two years, he had a big team that was at his command.

The lowest point in his career was when his mother got sick, which eventually was the downfall of CompuTech. When his mother got sick, he basically put his company down, called all of his customers, and told them what was happening. He then referred them to about 5 other companies that he trusted that would do the work for them.
He says that “My collage career was a waste of my time.” And that “ Collage isn’t the end all be all. If you want to go in to engineering or mathematics, go to collage. If you want to go into computer Tech, I wouldn’t even get a Computer Science degree, I would get a business degree.”

In conclusion, in the interview with Mike Davis, we learned that sometimes to do what you do most, you don’t even need to go into collage. The things you want to do in life may need something a little different, like getting out an getting certifications, like he did. Every body has a different path in life and that collage isn’t always the

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