giving rise to action; staying fit and sane through running
(34 Weeks)
September 11, 2001, was a turning point in my career. I was the Vice President at Bergen County’s United Way (New Jersey). If you’re not familiar with the area, we were right across the Hudson River from northern Manhattan and the skyline is visible from many points in our communities. As the news came in, I remember we all had a feeling of just wanting to gather our families close and hide in our homes.
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It has been said that people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Can it be all three?
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Last week marked a career milestone. April 24th was the day I started at The Record 35 years ago. I wrote about the significance of that in When we were friend to the people we served (November 2018). As significant as that was, the work experience that paved my career started many, many years earlier.
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If I had one piece of advice to give someone who wants to move to a new city, it would be “find a job first.” When I came out to Chicago over two years ago knowing only two people here, I had secured only a (very) part-time position, and planned to build my business with the rest of my time. It never occurred to me that two people probably wasn’t a sufficient network to do that.
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The last 6 years I have spent essentially re-grouping. This month in 2014 I was diagnosed with cancer. In June that year, a month after surgery, I lost my job and as my life spiraled further out of control that summer and fall, culminating with my husband’s death in October, I vowed to create a new and better life for me and my daughter. It took me a little longer than I thought it would.
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