It's a lot of fun. I've covered the biopharmaceutical industry for GEN - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - for most of my career, and it's wonderful to learn about breakthroughs from the people who make them. They have some fascinating stories and insights! What was/is your career?
I'm more a jack of all trades, master of none (except direct support caregiving mastery 😉). Studied physics and natural resource management at Rutgers University, was employed as a carpenter's helper working on new housing sites, drove for UPS at the Bound Brook, NJ hub, spent five summers as an ocean lifeguard for the National Park Service, Gateway NRA (first shore point south of NYC), became an EMT, worked for an "Outward Bound" type program with incarcerated teens instilling team building and outdoor sports skills, then five years as a County Park Ranger in central NJ, taught ARC and AHA CPR and First Aid, became a geriatric LPN working in long-term subacute care settings, as well as home health and hospice work, went to school to be a medical secretary and worked for a cardiologist, and eventually settled into working with adults living with developmental disabilities as a direct support person, a manager of a group home, and a home provider most recently for two years. I also have been a live-in caregiver for elderly ladies with end-stage dementia. I think I get bored easily and always antsy to do new things. Now all I want to be is a grandmother. But my Millennial kids are late bloomers.
Thanks so much for asking. It was fun to recount my employment spanned over half a century!
Thanks for your service to the citizenry, keeping folks informed as a correspondent about current breakthroughs in the fascinating (but sometimes ethically perilous) world of genetic engineering and biological technologies. 🤗
So informative and delightful! Thanks, Gail. I think I'd enjoy being a technical writer. I hadn't known you are a biotech writer. Happy Mother's Day!
It's a lot of fun. I've covered the biopharmaceutical industry for GEN - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - for most of my career, and it's wonderful to learn about breakthroughs from the people who make them. They have some fascinating stories and insights! What was/is your career?
I'm more a jack of all trades, master of none (except direct support caregiving mastery 😉). Studied physics and natural resource management at Rutgers University, was employed as a carpenter's helper working on new housing sites, drove for UPS at the Bound Brook, NJ hub, spent five summers as an ocean lifeguard for the National Park Service, Gateway NRA (first shore point south of NYC), became an EMT, worked for an "Outward Bound" type program with incarcerated teens instilling team building and outdoor sports skills, then five years as a County Park Ranger in central NJ, taught ARC and AHA CPR and First Aid, became a geriatric LPN working in long-term subacute care settings, as well as home health and hospice work, went to school to be a medical secretary and worked for a cardiologist, and eventually settled into working with adults living with developmental disabilities as a direct support person, a manager of a group home, and a home provider most recently for two years. I also have been a live-in caregiver for elderly ladies with end-stage dementia. I think I get bored easily and always antsy to do new things. Now all I want to be is a grandmother. But my Millennial kids are late bloomers.
Thanks so much for asking. It was fun to recount my employment spanned over half a century!
Thanks for your service to the citizenry, keeping folks informed as a correspondent about current breakthroughs in the fascinating (but sometimes ethically perilous) world of genetic engineering and biological technologies. 🤗