My name is Carson Ferreira and I am currently enrolled to start the career path of being a lineman at Northwest Lineman College in Idaho this summer, July of 2024. I will be arrivng several days before school starts to check in with the housing team and get my apartment ready. Luckily a friends is attending too, so we will be able to share the apartment. It’s coming up so quick and I can’t wait to start this adventure.
I am currently a senior in high school, in a small town in California. I am also involved in the FFA, as well as Ag mechanics at my high school. Every day after school, on the weekends and when school is out for breaks, I work in the Ag field for a local farmer in my home town. On my spare time I love to hit the sand on my quad in Pismo, go snowboarding in the winter, jump on a jet ski and hit the lake in the summer, and go trap shooting with my family and friends, when weather permits. I enjoy time outside, which a great for this career path. I also volunteered to help build barricades in and around my community during last winters wild storms.
In order to start this career path of being a lineman, which will take me to another state, I’ve made the hard decision of leaving behind my family and friends and the lifelong feel of living in a small town. I am also eagerly awaiting this opportunity to better myself, my abilities and start an amazing career. Being a lineman means a lot to me, it has been a dream of mine since I can remember. I can’t wait to learn and be able to climb up the poles, hang for the helicopters, and help community members with their power needs.
My family is very sad that I will be moving away and they won’t be able to see me everyday, that they can’t just drive around the corner or to a close town to see me, my mom’s heartbroken. One of my little brothers is excited for me to go so he can have my room while I’m gone. Brothers are just the best. They are also very so excited for me, and very encouraging, and very proud that I have made the decision to further my education. They want me to do what makes me happy, they tell me that I will be great and I know I will.
I am honored to have the opportunity to apply for this scholarship, because this will not only help with the financial burden of my tuition, but as well as my housing, since I will be far from home, school books and all the necessary tools that I will need to attend Northwest Lineman College, my uniforms that are required, and a guys gotta eat.
I know that this career path will give me everything that I have ever dreamed of. A demanding career in a field that is always moving forward, a career that never stops teaching, and a better life for myself. This is definitely a trade that is worth pursuing. It will be hard, and lots of physical work, but I am up for the challenge. Play hard, work harder, but in reality it’s not work when you love what you do, right? Or so I’m told and can’t wait to find out myself.