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I was born May, 30th 1989 at Wadley Medical in Texarkana, Ar. I was born to Kym Crispino from Queens, NY and William Lee of Hot Springs, Ar. My parents were young when they had me. We were very poor at times, but they always made sure I had what I needed. I was an only child, but grew up around plenty of cousins. I have lived in Texarkana my entire life. My parents split up when I was twelve, and my mother and I moved out into the country on a dead-end street with no children in the area, I became very sheltered and a little socially awkward.
My education experience is nothing out of the norm. I only switched schools one time in the fifth grade, because I wanted to go to the same school as my cousin. I later have regretted that move …show more content…

I ended up racking up 96 credit hours at a community college. I started to fall more in love with my job and had the opportunity to travel so I decided to leave my schooling since I could not figure out what I wanted to do, and focus all my attention on my job to move up.
The requirements for the work release program in high school, were that you had to have a job that you got at least 15-20 hours of work a week. You had to have a job within two weeks into the class in order to be able to stay. I was having a very hard time finding a job, but luckily one of the girls in my class told me that her job, Texas Roadhouse, was hiring. I will never forget my interview, I was so nervous and wearing dress clothes that were three sizes too big, but I got the job as a bus boy. After about two months, most of the senior bus staff had left, so management asked if I would become their trainer. I quickly moved into other positions while I was under 18 including hosting and togo’s. Once I turned 18, I was able to move up to server, but I also still remained the bus trainer. About five years into my job at Texas Roadhouse, I became Training Coordinator where I really started to expand my career. I began doing openings around the country, participated in their training competitions making it to the top 20 in the company two times and made it to the top 3 the final time. I really enjoyed to corporate structure that Texas Roadhouse gave me. I

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