I am long overdue for an entry, this I realize. Stephan Wlodarczyk is still here folks, I am alive and well and of course, still dreaming up dreams. I was trying to hold off for the longest time, just hoping I would be receiving a phone call filled with good news. I was recently granted an interview by Boeing and it was an interview like no other. Try envisioning a day where you felt as if everything was going your way, a day which your were feeling invulnerable and not a single soul or force could stop. That is what I felt like after my one hour interview!
That interview happened back in the early month of November, and I patiently waited for a phone call to find out if I would have the summer co-op position in St. Louis. Day after day, week after week, I hovered over my phone, hoping to see the 314 area code appear on my cellphone when finally it happened. I was told I was the number one candidate for the position, and that I would be given the offer, but they could not extend it because the facility I would be positioned at was undergoing budget constraints. Therefore, I will not know definitively if I will be taken in until sometime this month. Thus, I have to wait for another dreaded phone call.
I was hoping the next entry I made on this site was me exclaiming I earned a co-op with Boeing. Technically speaking, I did earn it, just haven't been granted the offer. The past few months have just been a roller coaster of emotions. I halted the ROTC program because being a dual major in Software Engineering and Information Technology is enough for me to handle at this point of time. But ever since I stopped, I feel like I have let myself down. I feel like I have given up.
My parents and family say I am too hard on myself. My friends and colleagues say I work to much, and others say whats all the fuss. Perhaps this is all true, perhaps I am being to hard on myself... maybe. But like Christopher Gardener said in the Pursuit of Happiness, "You got a dream... You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it. Period."
Well damn it, I am going to protect it, I will persevere, and I not going to give up. There is a dream out there with my name on it, and I, Stephan Wlodarczyk, am refusing to let it go.
Hello Stephan this Larry writing once more good to see your back you always return just when I think you given up your page. Any way boy do “I know how you feel “Ironically I had apply to Embry Riddle Aeronautic University for there online master degree in Aviation safety science. Now I knew they had requirements about certain cumulative average not being below 2.50 or something and mine was below that and I tried to explain to the staff about having dyslexia , not to mention I was a college student in my late 20 this was 30 years ago. I hope they wouldn’t judge me on my pass performance.
ReplyDeleteI too waited for that phone call or E mail and it finial arrived in late November DENIED admission .I was furious and demanded a repeal so I wrote a long later to explain my situation but to no avail it came back denied again. I was told by some friend in the academic world said, I could go non matriculated or take more undergrad but I lost interested with “EMAU” however I will continue my flight training and if a master is call for in my further I won’t look to EMAU for that ticket any way Stephan I’m sure you will get that internship or at least the universe (god) will bring another option just as good. Good luck
Larry
Stephan - Definitely make sure that you do a practice interview with your college's career center as they may pick up things that you say very well and say very poorly which could pivot the interview. Even the most experienced of people always get the opinions of others cause there is always a chance that they may not realize what they are saying right or wrong. Good luck with this.
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