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A Career Change - After 20 Years of Nursing!
Posted On: 14 July, 2021
As a child, I vacillated between wanting to be a teacher like my grandmother and wanting to be a nurse because of the cool uniforms. Nursing won out after I read the Sue Barton and Cherry Ames novels.
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What's the most interesting job you've ever had?
Posted On: 10 September, 2020
"One day, I was talking to a fireman and he told me to put my application into the Battle Creek Fire Department. I was hired, and it started a wonderful career for me. I loved that every run was different and there were never any two alike.
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