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I've done several things since high school, and have taken a variety of different classes ranging from blueprint reading to business management. I've worked in real estate for 3 years, a few secretarial and administrative office positions, internet tech support for CPI (Sears Portrait Studios), but the job I kept the longest (15 years...whew! That's a really long time for me! Ha!) was with a freight elevator door manufacturing company where I started at entry level as a shipping and receiving clerk and moved on up to sales manager. After being a shipping clerk, I moved on to become a welder and built elevator doors, prison windows and aluminum truck tool boxes. Then I was promoted for some strange reason into the office as a customer service rep. After 5 years of that, I was promoted to a sales rep and started traveling for the company doing building surveys for old and new construction jobs, and also attended several trade show conventions. I also hired and trained new employees. After 5 years of being a sales rep, I was promoted to sales manager and worked with architects and elevator consultants with writing specs and training new elevator engineers at many different companies. Besides traveling for the company, my two most favorite times with that company was assisting with the installation of the freight elevators in the Thomas Eagleton Courthouse and the Edward Jones Dome downtown, where I actually had to join the union. Then breast cancer hit me in June of 2004 and I had to have a bilateral modified radical mastectomy...ugh!!! I've been dealing with the recovery and physical therapy ever since, but I am now a four year survivor! My husband of nearly 20 years left when I was near the end of my chemotherapy, and we've been divorced now for three years...life is good! I'm a stay at home mom now for my youngest 14 year old son, and helping my daughter raise her two sons. I'm now tossing around the idea of going back to school to pick up where I left off with nursing. I love learning new things, but I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up!
