Carrie Elizabeth Johnson, Black American Paralegal Student | InnovativeLegal, LLC.- No Affiliation with any Law Firm or Lawyers! | Non-Attorney | Carrie Qualifications in the Education Sector

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Blog Post Written By: Carrie Elizabeth Johnson, Employment Defense Paralegal Student | US Natural Born Citizen | Born a Female | Not An Actress or Reality TV Personality | Not A Talk Show Host | Black American | No Affiliation with any Law Firm or Lawyers! | Not A Police Officer | Not A Licensed Mental Health Professional!

Carrie's Qualifications in the Education Sector

As a graduate of Redlands East Valley High School, located in Redlands, California, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson initially began working in the education sector as early as the 11^th grade. She first served in the capacity of a teacher’s assistant to an openly transgender teacher by the name of Mrs. Lucero (not an advocate of the LGBTQIA+ protected individuals that got their own type of lawyers already that they need to speak to!), back in 2001. Under her position, Carrie performed a few clerical duties such as grading papers, student attendance, passing out handouts as well as document collection and administrative errands. Although the teacher’s assistant position was a non-paid position, she received a letter grade for demonstrating a certain level of maturity to work alongside and under a protected class, such as an openly transgender that was seen as “taboo” in a small town. The following year, Carrie performed administrative duties in the capacity of an office assistant to the Redlands East Valley High School, Principal’s office in 2002, before graduating with her high school diploma in June 2003 that does reflect on her high school transcripts.

Upon graduating from both high school and financial management technician school, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson's next position in the education sector was as a security guard for a public uniformed high school in Saint Louis, Missouri in the early 2000s for a small security company. Her placement at a public uniformed high school was a paid position in which she performed security foot patrol for one or two days of temporary work at minimum wage, before being placed on other job sites not relevant to her previous work experience in the education sector. Carrie eventually fell on hard times, as a working single mother and full-time student at the University of Phoenix that she was evicted from her studio apartment on the south side of Saint Louis, Missouri which led to her relocation back to Redlands, California in February 2007. She discontinued her studies with the University of Phoenix and suffered another job loss as a loss prevention warehouse security officer in June 2007 in which, Carrie decided to research different schools of interest both on traditional education, professional licensing, career technical training schools like court reporting and the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, California before deciding on attending Riverside Community College in June 2008.

What is now considered Riverside City College, Carrie eventually applied for the reading tutor position for Professor Sandoval’s class in 2009 which she assumed was a federal work-study position that turned out to be a position under the Riverside City College School District. This was Carrie’s first administrative position in higher education, under the title of SL-Leader-Academic Support for the academic support department. Her position as a reading tutor came with the flexibility to create her own work hours around her studies while raising her daughter and still applying to full-time positions so she could eventually move out of her mother’s apartment with her underaged daughter. The subprime mortgage crisis that started back in 2007 to 2010 affected her mother’s personal household finances, as she was an employee for the Wells Fargo Mortgage corporate office, located in San Bernardino, California that she told Carrie that she was laid off from the company that bought out GE Capital Mortgage of which her mother had worked for several years prior to working for Wells Fargo Mortgage Company. Carrie continued her studies at Riverside City College, after her one-time semester as a tutor ended with plans of applying to some law schools that accepted associate degrees and one of which her Pal-83 instructor suggested applying to the law school she graduated from in Orange County, California.

Proving to be some of the most distressing years for not only herself but for many of those external to her mother's household of whom were homeowners and those who worked in the mortgage industry, Carrie remained in school to further improve her individual personal finances while being a single mother. With the loss of her full-time job as a loss prevention warehouse security officer for Lamps Plus located in Redlands, California it was in fact her first job offer that Carrie accepted upon her return in 2007. It was in this position that Carrie believed she needed to put in job applications in other industries that would earn a living salary so she could afford to move out of her mother’s apartment as quickly as possible with her daughter. Between 2007 to 2011, Carrie worked in a variety of industries such as direct consumer sales (telemarketer consumer sales selling timeshares), B2B sales, retail, culinary, legal, residential property "for sale" sign holder for Arrow Staffing and one loan modification company, while still putting in either job applications or submitting her resume online to employers. During that time, it was difficult for Carrie to pay her bills such as credit cards, cell phone, car insurance, and car note [CFPB Response Here] [Drive Time CEO Letter][Riverside Drive Time Car Loan Payment History]that her mother was never responsible for let alone responsible for carrying the financial responsibilities relating to Carrie’s daughter (my daughter was never a burden you selfish ass lying whites, dishonest blacks or lying Hispanics, dishonest Africans or disrespectful sleazy Italians who did not know me!) that she gave birth too by herself at St. Mary’s Hospital. On December 7^th, 2010, Carrie had her car repossessed followed by both her, Carrie’s minor child and her mother being evicted from Orange Village Apartments in Redlands, California in January 2011.

Carrie’s mother leaves her Redlands, California apartment first and told Carrie that both she and her granddaughter can remain in the apartment until the sheriff knocks on the door. After a phone call with California’s 211 helpline, Carrie entered the Anaheim Cold Weather Shelter program with her daughter that placed families in motels, while they find stable housing for their household composition. While Carrie’s daughter was enrolled in school, Carrie proceeded with her job search for full-time employment so she can find another apartment for her and her daughter while finishing up her studies. She secured another position in the education sector as a temporary call center agent for both American Career College and West Coast University Corporate Office in Irvine, California. Her placement at the for-profit vocational college was through Volt Workforce Staffing Solutions in Irvine, California that lasted well over ninety days with an extension at the discretion of the Hispanic female call center manager, Mayra Pena in October 2011 and ended Carrie’s temporary assignment in early 2012. Carrie received a second chance with another job placement through Aerotek Staffing agency in the education sector for Corinthian Colleges Corporate Office in Santa Ana, California in June 2012, as another call center agent. This position was short-lived, due to a strict attendance policy that no one can be late during the two weeks of paid training which resulted in an immediate termination for Carrie going into her second week of paid training tardy, not absent. Her unemployment was less than thirty days, and she accepted a full-time position with Bayside Village & Marina with two days off and she picked up a second job with Miles, Bauer, Bergstrom & Winters, LLP. after she signed a new rental lease agreement with Harbor at Mesa Verde on another studio apartment for both her and her underaged daughter in September 2012.

Close in her 90-day review at Bayside Village & Marina Mobile Home Park, as a leasing receptionist, Carrie was fired and had to sign an arbitration agreement to receive her final check towards her rent in October 2012. The following week, Carrie was fired from Miles, Bauer, Bergstrom & Winters, LLP. within the same month of October 2012 that would have been her 90-day review with Bayside Village & Marina, due to attendance. Scrambling to find another job and no money to market her notary loan signing and fingerprinting services, Carrie and her daughter were being evicted from another studio apartment that she was the sole responsible party on the lease with no roommates outside of her minor daughter in the apartment, back in March 2013. While attending Coastline Community College it would be Carrie’s first time taking out student loans towards related expenses that would help her to maintain her classes for the semester in 2013. With her daughter still in her custody, Carrie still maintained her courses while staying in motels  with her daughter and ended her stays in various Los Angeles County shelters that she felt were too dangerous to expose her young daughter to like Skid Row Rescue Mission and US Vets of Long Beach, California. It would be on February 12, 2014, Carrie accepted another job offer in the education sector as an office administrator/sales assistant for Smog Tech Institute that she thought would be the job that would help her get back on her feet to support both herself and her underaged daughter that was attending school locally. An adult education school, located in Fullerton, California, Smog Tech Institute would be Carrie’s last position in the education sector before moving out of the State of California in September 2016.

On September 4, 2016, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson entered the State of Massachusetts for the first time as a homeless individual seeking full-time employment. Within 48 hours of her stay at Pine Street Inn, Carrie registered with the One-Stop Career Center of Boston, utilizing their computer resource center, and applied for work online. She accepted a temporary assignment with Manpower Staffing agency as an Event Attendant/Registration Scanner. After her temporary assignment ended with Manpower, Carrie reentered the culinary profession as an employee of Event Temps in September 2016 and expanded her experience in the education sector this time as a local traveling culinarian. Harvard University would be one of the first schools, Carrie took advantage of the HUD dining facilities strike at one point she worked 65 hours one week and clocked 72 hours the following week, attempting to work her way out of homelessness as she had succeeded in the State of California once before. Progressively gaining culinary experience throughout the State of Massachusetts for some of their most notable universities, private colleges, nonprofits and public high schools, Carrie served in many positions such as a chef or head cook, first-line supervisor of food preparation & serving workers, cook in restaurants, short order cook, dining room & cafeteria attendant or waitstaff for private events, fast food cook, food preparation worker, and baker between 2016 to 2018. Lasell College, Babson College, North High School, EF School, Brandeis University, Emmanuel College, Bentley College, MIT Stata Center/MIT Sloan/MIT Coop Panda Express, Harvard Medical School, Pine Manor College, and River School are a few of the colleges in which Carrie performed culinary duties before ending her employment with Noon Mediterranean in March 2018.  

Noon Mediterranean was a direct hire position that Carrie found while residing at the New England Shelter for Veterans in response to a help wanted sign outside of their downtown Boston restaurant. With a relatively new store location and change in their restaurant name, Carrie averaged about 20-24 hours per week, which was not even close to a living salary to pay market rent let alone pay her present tax debt, credit cards and collections that she disclosed to her Asian supervisor, Quang about her personal debts owed. Eventually, Carrie was kicked out of the New England Shelter for Veterans, and she ended her employment with Noon Mediterranean for several reasons, before going on to do culinary work in the following states: New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut from 2016-2021. Carrie’s final position in the education sector was as a non-paid, VITA individual tax preparer for the United Way of Central & Northeastern Connecticut back in the Spring of 2020 for the Manchester Community College designated site location. She completed her IRS-certified tax preparation training and exams in person at the University of Connecticut and the University of St. Joseph in Hartford, Connecticut. While being a homeless college student at MCC and seeking full-time employment, Carrie saw the volunteer position as a mutually beneficial shared work experience that she could utilize the transferrable skill later in life or gain full-time employment.

Unlike the homeless men that Carrie saw hanging around Hartford Union Station, she saw the volunteer work experience on her Saturday mornings as making use of her free time in a constructive manner that the transferrable skill gained could be used for seasonal work in the future. She initially applied for her PTIN (preparer tax identification number) through the IRS online portal, after having her taxes completed by StreetCred of Boston Medical Center which did her individual tax returns for the tax years 2016 and 2017. Had Carrie not taken up the volunteer position with the United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut, she would have been seen as loitering around the college campus anyway or just another lazy nigger not doing anything with her life, not studying and could have been potentially cited by campus police or Hartford PD for loitering at Hartford Union Station. Carrie’s IRS PTIN application was accepted on 3/4/2018 at 4:14 p.m. and she was issued a tax preparer identification number, while still owing the IRS herself. Carrie had no prior experience doing taxes for her own company and no prior experience preparing taxes for any of her previous employers that she had worked for in the past. She decided to take continuing legal education, continuing practicing education, and continuing education on taxes through cpaacademy.org, an approved IRS vendor.

Carrie credits her good grades on her IRS exams (no high income earners should never be stalking me or my family either!) in part to the instructor’s class lectures and actively listening to the United Way Instructors, who pretty much gave the answers prior to taking the exam in person. She decided not to proceed with purchasing the enrollment agent exam that she received notification from the IRS stating that she was ineligible to practice before the IRS, due to not taking the special enrollment examination on 9/12/2019. Her work as a VITA volunteer abruptly ended after one day’s worth of work at MCC’s site location, making Carrie’s work experience in the education sector a little over two years of experience either performing culinary or administrative duties on both the west and east coast.