More About Me...

I love to learn new things! If I could be a career student, I would have it made! I always loved going to school. The problem with this is that I get bored easily, and once I have mastered one thing, I'm off to hunt up my next challenge. Not very productive in the work force at times.

I have held many jobs over the years. I've worked in fast food as a lowly cashier/cook, and as management. I've worked as a cashier and management in grocery stores. I've been a waitress in hole-in-the-wall type places, as well as more upper-class establishments. I've worked in a deli. I've been an assembler in a factory as well as a parts inspector and a machine operator. I've worked as an EMT on an ambulance running emergency and non-emergency calls. I've been a Vet Tech working in a veternarian's office. I've done security work, worked in a fabric store, thrift stores, department stores, video rental stores, tanning salons, auto parts stores, bicycle repair shops, home health care agencies. I've been a ride operator at the local amusment park, and worked as an EMT there one summer as well. I've worked as a volunteer for churches (secertary, VBS Assistant Director, VBS Director), Girl Scouts (Leader), the Red Cross, and in nursing homes. Needless to say, I have worked ALOT of different jobs! My problem is that I get BORED!

So what do I do with all of this experience? How can I best utilize it to my and my family's benefit? I think my best answer would be to start my own business. The question is, "What kind of business would I enjoy the most?" To that I don't have a ready answer.

I love to cook, and always thought that I would like to open up my own place. But start up costs are outrageous! So I don't think that one is going to work.

I love the idea of working with animals and we live out in the country, so what about a small farm operation? Great idea, but it will take several years to get it running in such a way as to make a profit (if any!). We are slowly working towards that goal right now. We already have a veggie garden...didn't get much out of it last year. We planted late and it was our first attempt, so it was interesting to say the least! LOL Eventually we will raise turkeys. I would like to be able to have them to eat whenever we want (we like turkey better than chicken around here!) and to sell them to locals for holiday dinners, etc. We still need to clear the land needed (it's mostly wooded right now), build fences and "houses" for the birds, and some other farm related tasks before we can get started. But I think in the long run, it will be well worth the time and effort. We are also going to put in a berry patch this year. Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries are mostly what I want to put in. I will make jams and jellies for home use and sell the excess at the farmer's market, along with excess veggies, to make a little cash.

I love plants! I have planted crepe myrtles, yellow bells, azeleas, rhododendrons, dog woods, magnolias, red buds, snowball bushes, butterfly bushes, roses, hydrangeas, jasmin, lilac, gardenias, and I don't know what all else in the various places that I have lived. I've thought about starting a small nursery business. We have the old fashioned off-white/cream colored dogwoods growing all over our property. The birds love the dogwood seeds. Because of them, we have more "baby" dogwoods on our place than I can even count! I've thought about digging them up, caring for them for a couple of years, and then selling them off. Have you ever noticed the price of dogwoods in the home improvement stores or bigger nursuries?? I could make a killing on these little guys! Not to mention all the southern magnolia "babies" that I have out in the woods! And if I enlist the aid of DD9 (who started 5 oak trees by sticking some acorns in a plastic jar, capping it off, and forgetting about it, and 2 pecan trees by sticking the pecans in my geranium pot! I think the child is part squirrel!) I'll have it made! LOL

Anyway, I'm still not sure just WHAT I'm going to do. I do know that whatever it is, I'm going to have to do it on my own. I don't think I will ever be truely happy working for someone else. Now where did I put my shovel...