Career Roadmap
C's work combines: Education, Entrepreneurship, and Accomplishing Goals
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Take Roadmap QuizSkills & Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Graduate Degree
Human Development and Family Studies, General
Pacific Oaks College
Here's the path I recommend for someone who wants to be a Chief Executives:
Bachelor's Degree: Child Development
Graduate Degree: Business Administration and Management, General
Learn more about different paths to this careerLife & Career Milestones
My path in life has been direct
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Had a great mentor in first professional job.
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Bosses that recognized my talents.
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Bosses that allowed me the freedom to create my own course within the boundaries of my work.
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I quit a high paying job to work for myself. It increased my potential for growth.
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Society in general:
What are you doing in the field of engineering? You are a woman who is taking up a valuable spot for a man!
How I responded:
DON'T ever listen to anyone but yourself! Find something you love and follow that path! Trust your gut...it is always right! Always!! Life is too short to have regrets. Although that experience made me leave the STEM field, I have used my engineering/math skills in my role as a technical adviser. Recognize transferable skills! I LOVE what I do! Practice positive messaging to yourself throughout your life. Use mindful practices such as yoga and meditation to quiet/dis-alarm the "noise".
Experiences and challenges that shaped me
As a beginning engineering student, I took a class in which I was the only woman. A group of men used that time to intimate me every day with VERY inappropriate gestures and comments. I dropped out of the program and changed my major.