I am an Elementary Education major at Edison State College and will be
starting my final internship this fall.
I have been on this journey for what seems like forever, I actually
started pursing Elementary Education after I graduated from High School in 1989!
I met my husband Bill (married 22 years) soon after starting classes. Needless to say I lost focus and changed priorities when my daughter Ashley was
born in 1991. Both my husband and I took
a few years off of school to focus on our family. My husband returned to school first in 1996
to finish his degree in Business Management.
Soon after he graduated we welcomed our second daughter Julianna in 2000
and started a business. I attempted to
go back to school in 2000 but found it too overwhelming to balance all my
priorities at the time.
Both of my parents were in the banking industry. My father worked as a
small business loan officer and my mother was the head of Human Resources. My parents divorced and I moved to Cape
Coral from Stony Brook New York with my mother and two older brothers when we
were 4, 8 and 14. I spent the school
year here with my mother and the summers in New York with my father. My oldest brother was a musician, he passed
away in 2005. My surviving brother works as a Case Manager. Sadly my mother was
diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2006 and my father passed away in 2007. I am the
only one of my siblings that married and had children. My Aunt was an Elementary School teacher so
I went to elementary school where she taught at Tropic Isles Elementary. I attended Gulf Middle school starting the
first year that they were opened and then graduated from Cape Coral High School.
As for my career I have been very fortunate, I started my career working
in banking and found my way into the accounting field. I worked at Lee Memorial Hospital as a
bookkeeper. After 10 years I left when my husband’s remodeling business took
off so that I could run the office full time.
It was really the best of both worlds as I was able to work from home
and spend more time with my daughters.
Like many people in the construction industry the economy took its toll
on our lifestyle and I found myself once again looking for work. Having never had a problem finding a decent
job I was rather discouraged by what was out there. I decided then that if I
was going to go back to working for someone it would be doing something I love
and immediately enrolled at Edison as a full time student. While at Edison, I found a full time customer
service job in a call center that allowed me to go to school during the
day. After 2 years of very little sleep
with school during the day and working at night I left and took a full semester
just being a student. This year I began
working as a substitute teacher at Cape Coral Charter School, I was hired to
take over a 1st grade class for 8 weeks while the teacher was out on
maternity leave. Recently I also started
working for Lee County School System as a substitute teacher. I have loved visiting the different schools
and experiencing the different grades.
My husband now works full time for the City of Cape Coral. We also still have our business but my role
is not very demanding. He does a few
plumbing jobs in the evening and on the weekends and I balance the check book.
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