JackToMaster(Placeholder)

Biography

FORGIVE THE LACK OF A PHOTO! I have none to upload at this point in time, but that will be corrected later on.

Just to tell you a little about myself. I am from Southern Illinois, St. Louis Metropolitan area. My parents are both retired military and both were raised on farms before they met, so to say discpline runs deep doesn't begin to cover it. I was taught respect and responsibility from home.

Through-out my 16 years of schooling I participated in various activites:

Most years my days were structured from sun-up to sun-down, not to say that I didn't get breather now and again, but to this day I do not know the meaning of the word vacation. I am dedicated to the task(s) set before me and I do not stop until the job is done. I may not remember everything I am supposed to do, or it may not get done the way it was intended, but it will get done.

I am very musically inclined since I am a fourth generation musician. Music runs in my family and it's a part of me. I play guitar and drums, but looking to expand to a wood-wind instrument like a sax. I also have an interest in the electric bass, and the Cello. I might take up the piano, but still unsure. In music I made no acheivements to speak-of, but most of my band director's considered me a prodigy due to my acute hearing. I could hear and feel the music and play it from memory. I coul also improvise something and it'll sound good and support the music.

My sports career has been healthy and very demanding, but I face the challenges and my limitations and seek only to surpass them. To say I was always determined to get better, is nothing short of the truth, but I also needed to prioritize, competing meant nothing if I was failing academically. Sometimes I had to give up something in order to meet the goal. Learning sacrifice. Starting in Elementary I won ribbons, but we didn't really have a championship at that low a level. But was part of a team that beat the school's initial record twice, and I almost beat another. In High-school I was winning medals left and right, I never got close to any records, but I did go to state all four years of my Track career. In Cross-country my Senior year I made All-Conference.

However my greatest trial, was leadership. Just as the guys that were there were graduating and imparted their knowledge unto me I did my best to impress it upon the guys following me. In College this really came out since I was going to a school that was young. I had four years of cross-country at Lindenwood Belleville, but my heart was for Track, but the program didn't exist until 2013.

Lastly, the hostname jacktomaster, is actually a trait in my family at least on the male side. My dad knows how to do all kinds of things, he knows how to draw-up a house and build everything in it and all that entails and roughly knows how much it'll cost. He can tear a car completely apart and put it back together and it'll work as if it was new. He imparted most of those skills unto me if only to make sure that if something happens I can fix-it and save alot of money. We are not masters of any skill trade, but we are skilled tradesmen. So for us this quote fits.


Jack of all traits, Master of none.

I don't have any social media, never had a use for it since everyone I care to keep in touch with I can contact without a computer. That's not to say that I won't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, or even an Instagram at some point, but for the moment I do not have a use for it. If you wish to contact me...