Carrie Elizabeth Johnson Finance Work Experience & Education Sector Bio | Written By: Carrie Elizabeth Johnson, Paralegal Student | Founder/CEO/Sole Owner of InnovativeLegal, LLC.

 

Carrie’s Previous Finance Education, Technical Training & Work Experience

 

The Department of Defense developed an aptitude test, called the ASVAB which stands for Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery that determines a new enlistees’ job along with the duties and responsibilities that are associated with that job while serving in a branch of military service. There are two ways of taking the ASVAB test through an enlistment recruiter that will schedule the exam to be taken at the nearest Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) or it comes in the form of a career exploration program (CEP) ASVAB test for students at local high schools, community colleges, job corps. test centers or prisons may distribute the exam for individuals to take. Carrie Elizabeth Johnson took the enlistment version of the ASVAB test, after meeting with a California National Guard Recruiter by the name of SFC Patriece Culberson who scheduled the exam for a Los Angeles County testing site back in 2001. With an AFQT score of 43 which stands for Armed Forces Qualifications Test, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson was given the choice of an administrative job or finance job before enlisting into the California National Guard. She accepted the military occupational specialty or MOS of a 73C Finance Specialist at the age of 17 with the parental consent from her biological mother allowing her to sign the California National Guard contractual agreement on December 17, 2001, because she was not an emancipated teenager.

            While in her junior year of high school, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson was responsible for reporting to the 223^rd Finance Detachment Unit, located at 2320 N. Parmelee in Compton, California for her weekend drills. She officially started paying taxes at the age of 17 with the correct filing status of single with no dependents, as her daughter was not born until 2005 and she was never married. Unlike the rest of the high school students with either cars from their parents or purchased on their own, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson was being driven to and from her required weekend drills in Compton, California by her biological mother Barbara Ann Bradley, while Carrie was still in high school. It was not Carrie’s preferred method of traveling to her weekend drills when she wanted a car of her own so that she could drive herself to her weekend drills, go hangout with friends or look for a job. Shortly after signing her National Guard contract, Carrie needed to pick-up some additional graduation credits, and she decided to take some forgotten Regional Occupational Program courses to graduate high school. Of those courses, Carrie took Fashion Merchandising, Virtual Enterprise, Law Enforcement Occupations and Small Business Ownership & Management in high school. She started early trying to obtain administrative experience, by being a teacher’s assistant and office assistant to the principal’s office. Courses that were taken outside of Carrie’s required graduating credits did serve its purpose in aiding her with employable skills to enter the workforce, after graduating high school.

            Upon completion of Advanced Individual Training (AIT) in August 2003, Carrie did absolutely nothing with the finance school government training that she gained in the United States Army Finance School, located in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. She accepted a hostess job, at Black Angus Steakhouse but suffered injuries from a car accident and did an interstate transfer to the Missouri National Guard in 2004. Her weekend drills for the Missouri National Guard did not last long, before she went on active-duty-service-work orders to work for 4 National Guard Guidance Counselors that included the following: SFC McCarthy, SFC Charles, SFC Vega & SFC Alvin Sutton. Her government paychecks were always on time and hit her bank account on the 1^st & 15^th of every month and she was no longer required to show up to her weekend drills, while on orders. From 2004 to 2006, Carrie did not have any dealings with any past employer’s company financials, payroll, business taxes or accounting at her previous jobs in the State of Missouri. Carrie did acquire some retail work experience for both Wet Seal & Forever 21 in the St. Louis Galleria Mall, as a retail store sales associate that did have some cash handling experience on both jobs. She vaguely remembers putting in a resume submission to Edward Jones for one of their entry-level office positions in which she recently inquired with the company CEO to retrieve any records of her personal information that she would have put on her resume and names of the references listed.

            Carrie became pregnant in 2004, she received a discharge from the Missouri National Guard in 2004 followed by her ford focus vehicle being repossessed while residing under her grandmother’s roof. She was still picking up jobs while pregnant and throughout her pregnancy and attempted one last time to finish out her National Guard contract but through the Army Reserves, instead. Carrie reentered the Army Reserves, while both herself and her newborn were staying at the Haven of Grace Shelter. Driving to her Army Reserves drills with a vehicle that she purchased for $2,000 dollars at a Buy-Here-Pay-Here-Car-Lot that did not have a car note, Carrie started making up her absent drills from the Missouri National Guard with the Missouri Army Reserves. Carrie was assigned to the 6025^th Garrison Support Unit and with permission from a staff sergeant was allowed to bring her newborn with her on her make-up drills because they were taking out payments from her previous National Guard absences that did not cover childcare expenses for the make-up drills. Secondly, Carrie had a hard time finding a childcare provider that was willing to accept childcare payments from Social Services, as most daycare providers did not like receiving payments after childcare services have already been render in advance. The way in which it works is that a single parent finds their childcare provider (facility or home daycare) and the childcare provider must agree to receive payments from Social Services after childcare services have been render, which is something that someone who has never had kids before but has a judgement or opinion that individual would not normally know, as an individual with no kids.  It was difficult for Carrie to find a 24-hour licensed daycare facility, leaving her vulnerable to finding a home daycare provider that operated 24-hours, on holidays and 7 days a week to accommodate any job opportunities that may be offered to Carrie at that time.

            Through a program at St. Vincent DePaul in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, Carrie took some day classes to obtain move-in costs for her first studio apartment, after exiting the Haven of Grace Shelter. There were some hostilities amongst Carrie and shelter residents when Carrie’s grandmother told her she was selling her house and was going to give Carrie, $2,000 dollars. Carrie had complained about taking public transportation and walking, due to sexual harassment on public transits or while traveling to use that method of transportation. Her grandmother asked Carrie what she would do with the funds. Carrie told her grandmother that she would use those funds towards purchasing a vehicle to find employment faster and her own apartment. Carrie knew her time at the Haven of Grace shelter was not going to last and eventually found a market rent studio apartment on the southside of St. Louis for under $500.00 per month that was down the street from her former Today’s Staffing, job placement. At first, Carrie found a black female home daycare provider that was within walking distance from her studio apartment that accepted payments from the Missouri Social Services to watch her newborn. With the use of childcare through social services, an individual must demonstrate an immediate need for either work or school and not professional networking that must be proven to increase one’s earnings to afford market rent and associated monthly expenses for that individual and their dependents. Otherwise, in today’s job market the professional networking can be completed through virtual conferences, webinars for continuing legal education, continuing practicing education or self-paced online continuing education with most professions where conversations can be heard or recorded. Not to mention, some genders not utilizing professional networking for its intended purpose, but for other reasons associated with their in-person attendance.

            Carrie took some short security training day courses that led to full-time employment for some local security companies that placed Carrie on a Boeing Corporate contract and two residential senior citizens older apartment buildings. As an overnight patrol security officer for the St. Louis Boeing Corporate office, Carrie was driving a company vehicle and securing the entrances and exits of the surrounding perimeter. Whereas other placements included a few days on a public uniformed high school doing foot patrol or front desk security for two senior citizens older apartment buildings, between 2005–2006-time frame. Her former supervisor, Lashonda Dugger, a black American female, would always lookout for Carrie when it came to temporary work opportunities with Today’s Staffing as a mail sorter or offering to stay for overtime while working on an empty stomach. Lashonda Dugger (a non-relative & non-friend of the family) would offer heading over to White Castles for lunch when Carrie just started work, after being unemployed for a while to pay for lunch. When the peak temp work ended, Carrie had a brief job placement as a packer amongst non-English speaking individuals that clearly showed many that she did not have issues with pride to accept work that involved packing cherry tomatoes in a production line with other individuals of different backgrounds at that time. Throughout Carrie’s time in St. Louis, she was still communicating with the same two girls that she graduated from high school with about returning to her mother’s Redlands, California apartment because she could not afford her studio apartment anymore and was not doing well with employment there.

            As the custodial party with an established paternity test in place by the Missouri Department of Child Support, Carrie made travel arrangements to surprise her biological mother that she was back in town to move-in, after the eviction proceedings started on her studio apartment. Prior to Carrie’s eviction, her biological mother was “baiting” Carrie to return to California over the phone that eventually ended up happening in either January or February of 2007. Carrie contacted a dependable female that she graduated high school with to ask if she could pick-up her and her daughter from the Greyhound Bus Station in February 2007. En route back to Redlands, California both Carrie and her daughter were dropped off at her mother’s Redlands, California apartment. It would be the first time Carrie introduced her daughter to the same two females that she wanted to keep in contact with from high school, as Shanta’s friends were not Carrie’s friends and was only introduced to Carrie through Shanta in the second half of 10^th grade. This same female would allow Carrie to use her car when Carrie’s mother would not allow her to use her car to look for employment. Lamps Plus would be Carrie’s first direct hire position, as a warehouse loss prevention officer around June 2007 that led to the purchase of another ford focus vehicle in July 2007. Those duties and responsibilities associated with the Lamps Plus position did not involve accounting or bookkeeping, but Carrie was fired within a few weeks. Through the tuition-free community college California wavier, Carrie decided not to return to the University of Phoenix as either an in-person or fully online student in the State of California. She selected Riverside Community College for their paralegal program and attempted her first accounting course that was considered a paralegal elective in the fall of 2009 at that time but did not receive a passing grade. A second attempt was made with the principles of accounting (ACCT-1A) course in the Summer of 2010 but resulted in a withdrawal.

From early 2007 to 2016 in the State of California, Carrie would gain more cash handling experience at Mervyns Retail Store, K-Mart Dept. Store, Panera Bread, Rainmaker/Decton Staffing job placement or Bayside Village & Marina leasing office as either collecting rental payments or retail cashier but still never held any position in which she was responsible for payroll, business taxes or accounting for any past California employer. Carrie could recall her overweight white female supervisor from Panera Bread, mentioning Carrie’s cash register being under on one shift but was never accused by any past employer of theft. However, Carrie was working at a new Panera Bread store location that would spread out shifts that were less than part-time work hours that led to missed car payments. Carrie could remember the misuse of her work phone number that she listed on her car loan application by Riverside Drive Time, repeatedly calling Panera Bread about missed payments because of the limited shift hours being offered to store associates at the new location. Still enrolled at Riverside Community College from 2008-2011, Carrie held one position on the college campus and many other positions off the college campus that did not involve any direct dealings with company financials, business taxes, payroll or accounting. The mortgage crisis that directly affected her biological mother’s personal finances led to both Carrie and her daughter having to leave her biological mother’s Redlands, California apartment early 2011. Entering the Anaheim, California cold weather shelter in 2011, both Carrie and her daughter while still in her custody were placed at the El Dorado Motel.

            Now of school age, Carrie first enrolled her daughter into Danbrooke Elementary School in Anaheim, California while being protected under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act in 2011. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act may not have been known to individuals that have never had kids of their own before, but school staff were required to be familiar with the act where Carrie’s daughter was attending school. There were some delays in her employment, due to housing issues but Carrie secured a temporary assignment through Volt Workforce Solutions in Irvine, California for American Career College Corporate office. The call center agent placement at American Career College Corporate office began for Carrie around October 2011 and was full-time. Carrie and her daughter were under the Illumination Foundation Motel Shelter program on Harbor Blvd in Costa Mesa, California while Carrie was working as a call center agent and her daughter was newly enrolled into a local school in Costa Mesa. It was in this call center position; Carrie was able to save up for a cheap vehicle that she purchased off Craigslist for $800.00 dollars. An older 89 gold four-door Acura legend was the vehicle Carrie was using for her method of transportation as opposed to public transportation that would leave both Carrie and her daughter tired by the time they got back to the motel. With no car note and her car insurance paid annually, Carrie maintained employment under Mayra Pena past the 90 days at American Career College corporate office. Carrie would be coordinating with Nora Aguilar, a home daycare provider that was located off Harbor Blvd in Fountain Valley, California to pickup Carrie’s daughter from the after-school program while Carrie was at work. Home Daycare provider, Nora Aguilar was a necessary childcare expense to accommodate any overtime being offered by Carrie’s supervisor, Mayra Pena.

            There were more housing changes while Carrie was working at American Career College that included an unlawful motel eviction from the Illumination Foundation Costa Mesa Motor Inn shelter program and an exit from Colette’s Children’s Home in early 2012. With her daughter still in her custody, Carrie went back to Pastor Wiley Drake’s church for a temporary place to stay, before signing her new rental lease agreement at the Habor at Mesa Verde apartment complex in the fall of 2012. By that time, Carrie was fired from Local Splash, Aerotek call center position ended and she accepted a leasing receptionist position at Bayside Village & Marina in Newport Beach, California the summer of 2012. While none of Carrie’s previous phone sales or call center positions involved dealings with company financials, Carrie would have direct cash handling experience in the leasing receptionist position at Bayside Village & Marina in the summer of 2012 by accepting rental payments. Bayside Village & Marina starting pay was $14.00 dollars per hour and Carrie was talking about increasing her personal household finances from notary public services as well as accepted another $14.00 dollar per hour job at a local law firm. Attempting to settle into Orange County, California that had everything conveniently within either walking or a short drive from beaches and numerous theme parks, both Carrie and her daughter both started school in the fall of 2012. External to Carrie’s two places of employment in the fall of 2012, Carrie acquired professional licenses to earn more income since she could not register as a legal document assistant until she graduates with her paralegal certificate. She did complete some additional associate degree graduating requirements at Coastline College towards her associate’s degree in paralegal studies with program catalog rights being held at Riverside City College. Her Costa Mesa studio apartment that Carrie acquired by working 2 $14.00 dollar per hour jobs, seven days a week would mark her last legal place of residence in the State of California that she never needed a co-signer for. Carrie was the sole responsible named party on her 1-year lease agreement with 1 dependent occupying the apartment unit with her and Carrie never gave anyone else a key to her apartment, as her daughter was still in elementary school. Carrie’s daughter was being both dropped off and picked up by Carrie when she got off work from the on-site after school program at both Killibrooke and Sonora Elementary schools.

            Unexpected life changes did occur upon entering Orange County, California from early 2011 to early 2015 that Carrie was advised by a public defender to transfer a court case to Los Angeles County Courthouse while she and her daughter were both still attending school. Carrie completed some additional associate degree requirements at Coastline in the summer of 2015, but the burdensome court case altered Carrie’s academic studies to complete repeated court order services that was completed by Carrie Elizabeth Johnson on December 17, 2014, in the neighboring county. Carrie tried a fully online accounting major at Southern New Hampshire University with a declared major in accounting with a concentration in forensic accounting & fraud examination in 2016. Her studies at SNHU did not go well and Carrie withdrew after two failed college semesters. There was no time to do in-person professional networking pertaining to the legal profession nor did Carrie’s previous jobs in the State of California have any dealings with company financials, payroll, business taxes or accounting when she was just a W-2 employee. Carrie was no longer ordered to complete family reunification services by abusive Commissioner Stephen Marpet but was trying to resolve her housing for her household structure that consisted of herself and her daughter that she gave birth to by herself in 2005 with Lashonda Dugger being the only “admittance” during the birth of Carrie’s daughter as a visitor, back in St. Louis. There was never any confusion about who was the custodial named party or non-custodial named party which was listed in court documents that Carrie never expressed any interest in reuniting with the non-custodial (a non-famous individual) named party, who was not Carrie’s son, never was Carrie’s boyfriend, never was Carrie’s friend, nor did she have any interest in knowing the non-custodial named party contact information that she had no good memories of.

            With very little information being given to Carrie at the court hearings, she was still considered the working poor with a full-time job but sleeping on the beaches once she exited Bell Shelter. The “working poor” is a term that should exist, meaning a person who works a full-time job with overtime but is still not earning the average market rent for a geographical location. Once cited for a “homeless loitering ticket” for sleeping on the beach by the City of Long Beach PD, Carrie had to pay over $571.00 dollars, before it turned into a bench warrant. Residing destitute in the Los Angeles County area, Carrie accepted a one-way bus ticket from a church to the City of Boston. She arrived in the City of Boston on September 4, 2016, months after word that the hearing officer was going to terminate Carrie’s parental rights at the next hearing and she registered with the one-stop career center within 48 hours of being in the State of Massachusetts. Clearly embarrassing some native Bostonians, Carrie was offered a temporary event/registration check-in personnel position from Manpower Staffing Agency for the BCEC Global Partners Events within 7-10 days of being in the State of Massachusetts. Following Carrie’s one assignment with Manpower Staffing Agency, Cedric King would be the employer to offer Carrie a job by the end of September 2016. Carrie worked under Cedric King at Event Temps. for 1 year, while doing culinary work with other local staffing agencies that had some of the same accounts as Event Temps. Left traumatized by abusive appointed government lawyers, Carrie stayed within the culinary, industrial warehouse and hotel/hospitality industries on the east coast from 2016 to the present time and refused to put in job applications/resume submissions to local law firms. It would be Carrie Elizabeth Johnsons’ last time working in a law office in 2012 with the Miles, Bauer, Bergstrom & Winters, LLP local law firm, as a single parent in Orange County, California.

            For the 2016 tax year, Carrie had StreetCred tax preparation service within the Boston Medical Center do her individual tax returns that she assumes now that either the OC Public Defenders (mentally ill scum) or the OC Social Services County Lawyers, referred her name to the Internal Revenue Service to look into her tax returns while Carrie was being distracted with family reunification services imposed onto her, as the sole parent of her daughter twice in two different counties. After inquiring about doing tax preparation volunteer work with StreetCred, Carrie applied for a paid preparer tax identification number on 3/4/2018. Followed by a submitted application and fee submission to practice before the Internal Revenue Service on 3/23/2018, Carrie started doing continuing education with CPAacademy.org on 12/3/2018. However, it would not be until the spring of 2020 that Carrie would eventually start doing tax preparation as a volunteer at the MCC site location. She put off purchasing the study materials for the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers exam to finish her pre-existing associate degree on the east coast in 2020. Now having work experience in four states on the east coast, Carrie still had no prior work experience or traditional education in accounting, business taxes, finance or payroll taxes for any past employer or as a volunteer. Her professional networking on the east coast was solely intended for Carrie’s defense against the Internal Revenue Service in which she will stand firm that she has never had any partners or lawyer friends of any race or gender that could disclose or defend her in any IRS proceedings that pertained to her previous individual or self-employed tax returns for the State of California from a specific time frame.

            In the following four states, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson would acquire additional culinary experience in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from 2016 to 2021 with minimal in-person professional networking done in New York only. She did not renew her professional memberships with either the National Bookkeepers Association or the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers because of her funds not allowing her to purchase the required study materials to take the bookkeepers exam. Carrie took advantage of a one-week free access trial to review the materials of the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists while doing continuing practicing education with both Aceds.org & Acams.org, canopy tax, cpaacademy.org and mycpe.com within the timeframe of 2018 to 2020. Her last place of employment was with Red Robin of Manchester, Connecticut in which the company could not benefit from a work-opportunity-tax-credit from Carrie in 2021 that she felt contributed to her being fired within two days’ worth of work. Now consider Riverside City College, Carrie returned to their non-ABA paralegal program in the fall of 2023 and was fortunate to have a certain female instructor teaching the legal writing course that Carrie received a better grade than her failed attempt with Professor Van Winkle in the spring of 2010. Pending the results of two CLEP exams for their general education required courses, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson will be returning to her academic studies in the fall of 2024 with no plans of applying to any local law firms in the private or public sector. Occasionally, Carrie makes time for either in-person or virtual professional networking events or business conferences at her discretion while preserving her energy for herself and her daughter that she gave birth too. There are no plans to take the bookkeepers exam, while she is still finishing up a pre-existing degree for her IRS defense that cannot be copied and pasted to neither famous nor non-famous individuals.