Everybody can learn...part one -- transitions

Like (most) everyone eventually does, there came the time when I grew up and decided that I did not need the US Army anymore to provide opportunities for me and meet my needs. Somehow, I had come to the conclusion that I could take care of myself!

After I had the privilege to discover what it was like to be poor and work several jobs to survive--like flipping pizza, selling office supplies, doing wealthy peoples' taxes, and working as a funeral director--I enrolled at Pensacola Junior College and completed my AA. PJC is a wonderful little school with a fine math and English faculty and I thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from my experience there. It also has a great little planetarium, engaging art and music professors, and good chamber music right off campus--not to mention the sugar-white beaches where my son and I whiled away many, many hours.

Next stop for us was back to the Washington suburbs where I started working in the software industry--first as a technical writer then as a project manager for Meridian KSI--and began to work towards completing my undergraduate education at George Mason University. After following a few twists and turns, I became an English major and completed my BA in 1998. As Meridian KSI is a software development company specializing in distance learning, I next completed a MS in Organization Development, with a concentration in Instructional Systems Design, from Johns Hopkins University. While this degree helped me in my professional life (mainly learning how extroverted business types think and figuring out how to spend more than five minutes with them ;), I found myself bored but solvent for the first time in my life. So what's a girl to do? Get more education, of course. Please turn to everyone can learn part two.htm...