Many Jobs

What jobs have you had?

Oh I started out baby sitting as a young teenager. I also worked as a bookkeeping assistant at a car dealership in high school. Then I was a hostess at a restaurant. A clerk at an insurance company. A secretary at Hearst Publications back when Burt Reynolds’s did a centerfold for Cosmo. I was an administrative Assistant at several companies.

I decided to go to college at that point because I wasn’t liking my career choices. I worked at the NYU Press Office while in college. Also as a photographer’s rep.

I had a great job at a large insurance company in their Corporate Communication department. It was fun, interesting and I traveled a bit.

Then I moved with my husband and did some freelance writing. I changed career paths, went firvfilurthef education and worked as a counselor in a men’s prison.

For the final 10 years of my working career, I owned an alcohol and drug treatment center working with federal BOP and state probation.

I enjoyed all my latter-year jobs. I never made a fortune but I believe loving what you do is more important than how much you make. Nevertheless, I did make enough to support my family as a single mom. And enough money to retire and travel!