Jiggered (ePub)

formal and business educational experiences I received during those years were certainly put to good use in later life.

By the time I was 18, I had moved from home into an apartment with two friends and was essentially on my own, albeit with considerable assistance from my parents who firmly believed they had raised me with sufficient knowledge and good sense to enable me to survive on my own. In their eyes, I was an early success; out of the nest sooner than my siblings other than two brothers who had joined the military. During their all too brief lives, I maintained a close and loving relationship with my parents who were both deceased by the time I reached my 29th birthday; my father at the age of 51 and my mother at the age of 52.

During my stint in the business world, I also did the appropriate thing and married a young man who was considered a "good" potential provider and an excellent candidate for the job of future father to my unborn children. My children remained unborn and I spent nineteen years in the relationship before deciding I didn't like my marriage any better than my career in accounting.

I changed careers, became divorced before it was a commonplace everyday occurrence and began my advanced educational process all over again, studying biology, math, humanities and American history (just for fun) with a major in the field of respiratory care. However, once again, after spending ten years working in the healthcare setting, I decided I didn't like my job. I did, however, like my career choice, so I knew I was edging ever nearer to my own brand of personal and professional satisfaction.

I left the hospital setting to set up the first of three companies I would sequentially start up and run. My time in the financial and hospital setting was well spent. While working in the hospital, I taught medical residents and respiratory care students in the clinical setting and spent five years engaged in medical research projects under the guidance of my medical director. As one promotion after another came along, I was instrumental in