The Beginning

Yesterday, I started my blog and got a little carried away. I sounded more cynical than I intended so I thought would go way back to the beginning to try to find out when that happened. Every since I was a little girl I think I wanted to be in law enforcement or teach. I spent my days playing school with my sister who was dressed in her nun outfit or playing cops and robbers with the neighbor kids. Women were just be allowed onto the police force when I graduated from high school. At that time, they either worked the desk or undercover as prostitutes. Well, being a nice Catholic girl with a parochial education, that was not about to sit well with my father. SO teaching it was. Even that did not sit well with my father who believed that girls did not need a college education because most girls just got married and had babies. I was different--I wanted that piece of paper and a career. What a rebel!!!! IT took me a number of years----13--to be exact to get that piece of paper and I was darn proud of it. BUT to find a job once I had it was another hurdle. It was just my luck that when I was ready to look for a teaching position, Michigan was in a recession, like now, and laying off hundreds of teachers. I found a job in Adult and Community Education. It was to be a journey of discovery, a time of growth and a period of self-fulfillment like I never thought I would find. I found my home, my niche, my BEING. I really felt like I was impacting lives for the better. What I did meant something. I wasn't being idealistic--it was real. I had a purpose and gave it my all and received so much more in return. It was then that I new I had found my calling and chosen the right career path.