Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Hello Everybody


Hi Class,
     My name is Justin Langford but on all of our assignments you will probably see me as Kenneth Langford0.  I am a senior at Weber State and my degree is Organizational Communication with an emphasis in Training and Development.  I have been going to school off and on forever.  I have three semesters left so this is my final push to finish.  I have two little girls and my wife is expecting our first boy on September 24th.  My oldest is Nixon (4 years), and my youngest is Brixlee (2 years).  We think we our going to name our boy Knox but I don't know if I want to be the weird "X" family so I'm not totally sure.
     Right now I work at Meadow Gold Dairies in Salt Lake.  I have been there for 5 years.  It's a decent job but I work graveyards so I haven't slept well or felt good since I started.  Once I finish my degree I'm going to get serious about finding a different job.  I love to train and teach people so I really hope I can find a career in that field.  I really don't have any specific job in mind but I especially like to train new hires.  In my current department I train all the new people.  We really don't have a lot of turnover so I don't train a lot but when I get to I love it.
     As you can tell by my pic I love riding bikes.  Two and a half years ago I destroyed my knee on my BMX bike.  I was out of work and on crutches for three months.  I had three major surgeries and went through six months of physical therapy.  It took just about two years for my knee to start feeling somewhat normal.  Since I have gotten hurt I have become even more committed to riding.  As part of my therapy I bought a road bike, something I swore I would never do, and totally fell in love with it.  I loved it so much that I only rode my entry level bike for about six months and then sold it to buy a carbon fiber race bike.  My wife gets sick of me talking about ways I can come up with $8,500 for my ultimate dream bike (Specialized S-Works Tarmac).  Just to prove to myself that my knee was getting back to normal I trained and ran the Timpanogos Half Marathon in July.  I finished in 2:02:12.  It's not a super fast time but it was better than I thought I would do.   In addition to biking my family also loves to camp and shoot guns.
     I am looking forward to learning more about editing in this class.  When it comes to editing, spelling, and grammar I would say I'm decent but I'm definitely not great by any means.  Between my work schedule, my wife's work schedule, our two girls, and the new baby coming my time is always pushed.  I am a little nervous about keeping up with all the work each week but I actually think this will be a great semester.  I look forward to working with all of you

Thanks
Justin Langford

3 comments:

  1. Wow, for 2 years after a knee injury, that's a fantastic time for a half! Great job. And congrats on the new one. Boys are so much fun. After having four sisters, I have two little boys, and they are a blast.

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  2. My husband has gotten into biking over the past couple of years and loves it! I think it is great that you didn't give up and getting injured and still ran a half-marathon. That shows a lot about a person. I am also going into Org. Comm. and love the training and development aspect. Its too bad you weren't just a little closer to being finished with your degree because my husband was just hiring a training and development specialist for a large company here in Ogden and you would have been great!

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    1. Hi Natalie, If anything opens up at your husbands work please let me know. I would really appreciate it.

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