XJosh95
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Green Bay, WI
If you haven't guessed, my name is Josh. I am running for re-election to the Board of Directors position of Recorder. First, a little bit about myself and how I got into Jeeps and more specifically, XJs.
I'm 28 years old. My occupational background lends itself to the automotive field, but I am looking to get into something involving firearms and/or private security detail. I am from Indiana and consider myself Hoosier through and through. I now reside in Green Bay, WI and I still root for the Colts. I am a father to a beautiful little 2.5 year old boy, Harrison Jakeb, and I am absolutely infatuated with him.
I got into Jeeps through my best friend, Brad (GoSlowGetStuck) after he bought his first couple Jeeps and took me wheeling with him on my birthday in Jan. 09. Before February was over, I had purchased my own XJ and taken it off-road within 36 hours of receiving title in hand and attended my first WinterFest less than a month later. You can say my addiction began immediately.
I have been, what I consider, very active among the Midwest chapter. I have been on the WinterFest Staph 4 out of the 5 years I have attended; WF Oh-10 WF11, WF12 & WF13. I have attended a handful of our clean-ups at Redbird SRA and gone to multiple other social, MWC based functions. By now, most active people in the MWC know me and I believe I have a rapport with other members that has developed into what I hope will be lifetime friendships.
My life is where it is today because of Jeeps. And I am very proud and happy to be where I am. If it weren't for Jeeps, I never would have met the woman I love (Mega-Megz) and been given the greatest gift God has ever given me, our son.
As a continued member of your Board of Directors, I will do everything that I am capable of to maintain the MWC as the group of like-minded, albeit crazy, people I have come to love. Though, I understand that some changes are necessary, I would make it one of my top priorities in any decision making to not fix what ain't broke.
In my tenure on the BOD, I have implemented the official discussions and votes thread to keep you, the membership, in the know. http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1079426
I also brought the idea of having a sticky thread for any land use threads.
All in all, these aren't big things. Taking into consideration what was done by past recorders and what will be done by future recorders, I have solidified what the duties of the recorder are.
To get it out of the way, I will address the short-comings of my term. In January of this year, Meganne and I came upon very hard times between us. I went off the deep end. I completely dropped the ball on doing any preparation for Winterfest and my fellow BOD members paid the price. For that I apologize. My decision to attend WF13 was very last minute. In effort to make up for my lack of participation, I made every attempt to make myself available to help in any place I could.
This appeared to some that I was trying to take credit for things I didn't do. That was not the case. I was merely making my attempt to make some amends for my failures.
Post Winterfest, I came back to my normal duties with a workload that the BOD set in front of me with great seriousness. They had made it very clear that it was time I put up or shut up. I took the necessary steps to get things in order and performed my duties diligently throughout the year.
I understand where many will view this as unacceptable and will have a very difficult time voting for me and I hold no ill will against one who would believe another candidate would be better, that's politics.
Please, pose questions and I will do my best to field them.
I'm 28 years old. My occupational background lends itself to the automotive field, but I am looking to get into something involving firearms and/or private security detail. I am from Indiana and consider myself Hoosier through and through. I now reside in Green Bay, WI and I still root for the Colts. I am a father to a beautiful little 2.5 year old boy, Harrison Jakeb, and I am absolutely infatuated with him.
I got into Jeeps through my best friend, Brad (GoSlowGetStuck) after he bought his first couple Jeeps and took me wheeling with him on my birthday in Jan. 09. Before February was over, I had purchased my own XJ and taken it off-road within 36 hours of receiving title in hand and attended my first WinterFest less than a month later. You can say my addiction began immediately.
I have been, what I consider, very active among the Midwest chapter. I have been on the WinterFest Staph 4 out of the 5 years I have attended; WF Oh-10 WF11, WF12 & WF13. I have attended a handful of our clean-ups at Redbird SRA and gone to multiple other social, MWC based functions. By now, most active people in the MWC know me and I believe I have a rapport with other members that has developed into what I hope will be lifetime friendships.
My life is where it is today because of Jeeps. And I am very proud and happy to be where I am. If it weren't for Jeeps, I never would have met the woman I love (Mega-Megz) and been given the greatest gift God has ever given me, our son.
As a continued member of your Board of Directors, I will do everything that I am capable of to maintain the MWC as the group of like-minded, albeit crazy, people I have come to love. Though, I understand that some changes are necessary, I would make it one of my top priorities in any decision making to not fix what ain't broke.
In my tenure on the BOD, I have implemented the official discussions and votes thread to keep you, the membership, in the know. http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1079426
I also brought the idea of having a sticky thread for any land use threads.
All in all, these aren't big things. Taking into consideration what was done by past recorders and what will be done by future recorders, I have solidified what the duties of the recorder are.
To get it out of the way, I will address the short-comings of my term. In January of this year, Meganne and I came upon very hard times between us. I went off the deep end. I completely dropped the ball on doing any preparation for Winterfest and my fellow BOD members paid the price. For that I apologize. My decision to attend WF13 was very last minute. In effort to make up for my lack of participation, I made every attempt to make myself available to help in any place I could.
This appeared to some that I was trying to take credit for things I didn't do. That was not the case. I was merely making my attempt to make some amends for my failures.
Post Winterfest, I came back to my normal duties with a workload that the BOD set in front of me with great seriousness. They had made it very clear that it was time I put up or shut up. I took the necessary steps to get things in order and performed my duties diligently throughout the year.
I understand where many will view this as unacceptable and will have a very difficult time voting for me and I hold no ill will against one who would believe another candidate would be better, that's politics.
Please, pose questions and I will do my best to field them.
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I'm a dick, but I try not to offend people. It just goes with the territory and I have to be humbled at times. I accept that and I'm not afraid to admit it. I'm not perfect.
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