About Me

My name is T.J. King, the seventh member of eight children. I was raised in a small town called Wendell, Idaho where I learned important principles such as honesty, integrity, hard work, personal drive, and persistence through the examples of my parents and siblings.

While growing up I played sports year round. There I initially learned to work with people and to work as a true team. Those teams I participated on had a high level of success as rarely lost any games we participated in. It was also in these teams where I learned that failure are at times life’s most valuable learning experiences.

During and after high school I worked for my dad’s local custom cabinet business where I built custom cabinets and gained experience in customer service. I also had the opportunity to work for my brother and build custom built homes.

A year after high school I served a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Buenos Aires Argentina. There I learned to speak and write Spanish fluently along with many opportunities to develop interpersonal communication skills. I also had many different opportunities to develop teaching life teaching skills and was given the opportunity to train and capacitate others to be effective teachers.

I am now a student at BYU-Idaho projecting to graduate in December of 2013 with a major in Communications (Public Relations and communication management) and two clusters, or partial minors in both Spanish and Business.

While at college, I have worked over the summers to pay school off as a Fire Fighter for the BLM. There I had opportunities again to work as teams and to follow orders. I worked at our cabinet business and most recently have sold pest control for a company in Charlotte, North Carolina. There in Charlotte I had the opportunity to speak with countless people over the course of three months. I developed interpersonal communication skills and sales skills. Over the course of three months I developed skills that proved to be very successful as I generated roughly $100,000.

I am now about to graduate with plans to attend graduate school at Boise State University, Idaho State University, or Brigham Young University to attain my MBA. I look forward to attaining my degree so I can be an asset to future companies and help them generate revenue while enjoying work at the same time.