Rodrick Pixley

Mr. Rodrick Pixley was born Febuary 23, 1963 and grew up in the public housing projects "Lafayette Gardens" in Brooklyn, NY he has many different talents and has mastered trades such as being a union bricklayer between the years of 1988-2011 and a long hard working ethic that began when he received his working papers at the age of 14 as a summer youth counselor and then later working in a grocery store as a store clerk, dairy and frozen food manager after dropping out of High School at the age of seventeen due to a personal dislike and distrust of what the School system was teaching that manifested into acting out and rebelling that would lead and take him on a very long journey of troubles that many never find their way out of. Mr. Pixley began writing his very first manuscript "The Poochie Pressman story" in 2004 as a way to mentally escape the daily routine of serving a short term prison term after witnessing the pure and raw wasted talent(s) of his fellow inmates that in many cases were just bad choices made to try and fight against a system that is set up to cause many to fail that do not know nor have the opportunities nor the affordability to better themselves though higher learning or seeking and putting into action a plan that would gain them self employment as well as self-empowerment. Mr. Rodrick Pixley has been a believer in self-empowerment ever since he learned how to gain employment of his own by applying to trade schools and investment of time and effort in education that has earned him over twelve construction certifications, CASAC-T (Substance abuse counseling certificate/ Internship), Home Health Aide certificate/ job, and is now a self-made published author and CEO of Rodrick Pixley Publishing Inc. with more stories to come.