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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
Professor
Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
I am a 49 year old immigrant from West Africa and this is my story; My Story I was borned in a village in West Africa where there is no electricity even till now, and we
drank from tthe streams till today. I am the third of eight children but the first boy child.
My mother and father did not graduate from High School. My mother sold single oranges
from our farm to provide for us, her children, since there were no jobs for our father.
As the first boy child, It was my 'duty to take care of the rest of my siblings' so after
graduating from high school and the passing of my father I assumed that role of the father
of the family to satisfy the African tradition.
At the age of 19 years I enrolled at the University of Liberia to study mathematics and
physics. I was unable to complete because of the outbreak of a civil war that lasted for
16years. The Liberian Civil War forced my siblings and I into refugee camps in the
neighboring country called the Ivory Coast.
We stayed in the Ivory Coast for 5 years then got resettled here in the United States as
refugees. Gradually my siblings became independent and started living the American
dream.
Since we arrived in Feb of 1999 I had done one course at a time just to continue my
education. It has been a very long journey. Long because I have a family of five, a wife
and who has blessed us with four kids ages 23, 20, 12 and 11. I have continued to have a
full time job, to provide for my family, and part time school.
Today I am proud to say that I hold an AAS degree in Telecommunications System Technology from Dakota county technical college in Minnesota, BSc in Business
Administration from St. Mary's University of Minnesota, Masters of Business
administration (MBA) and Masters of Human Resource Management (MHRM) from
Keller Graduate School of Management.
I have now max of on student loan -$138500.00 with a $13.50 an hour job at the a Home
depot where I work as a department superviser for store #6892. It is very hard on my
family and I that we have reduced our living standard to the bear minimum just to get by
daily. We live in a mobile home with no cable TV for our kids to watch and no internet
and no home phone. Here is a story of a man who has done everthing right but is still not
getting ahead.
I am of the fullest conviction that you can change my story around for me and my family
as the Home Depot is not just my job but my career. Thomas Massaquoi
AAs, BSc, MBA, MHRM
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