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are still the same; they will be just risking their lives before me. I always had to try and find something positive with the negative. I graduated from the Police Academy in 2000. I served in the Detroit Police Department for four years.
After injuring myself and leaving the department, I started doing hair full time. I started doing hair at a young age. I was doing my hair in elementary school, and I quickly learned French braiding because my grandmother couldn’t do hair. I did hair so well that the parents in the neighborhood would ask me to do their daughters' hair. I always wanted to make people look pretty. I have always been a positive person, listening to people's problems while they sat in my chair getting their hair done. My clients never left feeling the same way; they always left more encouraged and determined to be better.
I purchased my first home in 2000, and later in 2004, I lost it due to taxes. I was only 26 years old and didn’t understand what just happened. I didn’t understand about a short sale and that someone had purchased my property. After that happened, I was determined to study real estate and teach people how to purchase their first property and buy, sell, and fix and flip a house. I always wanted to educate people that want to get into the real estate field. I never wanted anyone to feel how I felt when I lost my home and felt like no one explained anything to me. I took a course and passed it for my license in 2006 and was discouraged because I was told that I only passed the
I landed my first full-time job as a legal secretary/paralegal in 1995 with a Law Firm, Wayne Brown and Associates. I worked there for several months before I got a job as a legal typist working at the Wayne County Juvenile courts. I went up the ladder quickly. I worked for the Wayne County Juvenile Court system and was promoted to Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, working in the prosecutor’s office for victim services. I was promoted again after two years to a warrant typist in the warrant division.
I always had a dream of working in the legal field. I typed warrants for three years and became pregnant at the age of 24. After having my son, I went into the police academy. I injured myself two months into the academy and had to go back through the whole thing again. Even though it was discouraging watching your classmates walk past you, I still cheered them on as I sat in a room answering phones. I didn’t let it stop me. I changed the negative and made it positive; I said we still have the same seniority date, and I still get paid the same, and our benefits