Brycen Rogers was awarded as Twin Falls School District’s employee of the month for September. Rogers, who works in maintenance, transferred to Canyon Ridge High School in February 2024.
Brycen Rogers, age 31, was born in Idaho Falls but only lived there briefly before being adopted and raised by two loving parents in Burley, Idaho.
Since he was young, Brycen has been a lifelong fan of the Green Bay Packers, specifically Aaron Rodgers, a quarterback, three-time MVP, and Superbowl Champion. He also enjoys fishing, hiking, and white water rafting.
As a night-time custodian, Rogers began working with the Twin Falls School District in 2015 at O’Leary Middle School. From O’leary, he began transferring to different schools within the district for three to four years, working with maintenance staff.
When asked what aspects of his custodial experience he enjoyed, he revealed, “As much of a people-person as I am, I liked being able to go in, put my headphones on, and have it be just me and the work.”
Rogers explained “It’s a real good job in the perspective that you don’t have anybody watching you. You just come in, you know what to do, and you might have people checking in the next day, but you’re kind of just free to do as you want, and as you get [the job] done, there’s not a lot of pressure.”
This past year, Rogers decided he was ready for a change, stating, “I was thinking, I just want to stay at one place and hopefully see my progress, and stay at that place and see the success of that too.” A position on the maintenance team became available at Canyon Ridge High School, and Rogers decided to take the job.
After working with the district for nine years, Rogers transferred to CRHS in February 2024. His position title is Maintenance Two, although Brycen described his role as “assisting everybody around here with what they need, helping everyone continue to be successful, or from the perspective of fixing everything that’s broken… I think just overall trying to create a comfortable environment.”
Rogers disclosed his job demands hands-on learning, unpredictability, and various tasks. “There’s a lot on the job that you can’t predict. You come in, and maybe a water heater is busted [gotta get that replaced], or an air conditioner’s not working. A lot of it just comes at you, and you’ve got to roll along with it.”
Rogers mentioned that he can only take some of the credit for the maintenance of the school, explaining that to keep the school in good shape, it involves the help of the night and daytime custodians, the school administration, the full maintenance crew, and the students.
“It’s not only myself; I know there’s a lot of people who care: coaches, admin, students; I’ve seen students pick up trash and cleaning. So it’s only if nobody cares that it doesn’t get better,” Rogers affirmed.
Brycen said that when handling challenging situations, if he can’t come to a conclusion, his method is to walk away and reproach the problem later with a clear mind. If he’s handling a tense situation with others, his philosophy is to remain calm and neutral and try to listen to the other person.
“I think that most people, if you just let them talk, they kind of calm down and usually you can find a solution if you just talk it out, communicate, and go from there.”
Rogers says he tries to “take each day at a time and do the best with what I’ve got.”
He claims this is how he prefers to approach all possible scenarios, focusing on the dichotomy of the situation at hand and approaching each problem with a balanced strategy.
Rogers stated he has no plans to relocate for the next few years; however, he does have plans to eventually return to college to complete an IT Degree Program and become an IT Tech.
“I think technology is more my expertise, but this [job] isn’t bad; this is kind of like a stepping stone to adventure sort-of-thing,” Rogers commented, confirming that after finishing his schooling, we would remain in the Twin Falls School District, but change job positions.
