Patricia Jaeger:  

After High School I went to Stout University, hoping to get into Fashion Merchandizing only to find out that Really I should keep clothing design as a hobby. At the end of my sophomore year I started discovering other options. Math seemed to be of interest and so was helping people. I spent the summer as an occupational therapis aid at St. Lukes. After which I switch colleges and went to Whitewater making my colleges years 5. I graduated with a BSE in Math (major), computer science (minor) and secondary ed (minor). I taught high school and junior high prior to graduating and decided that business in the computer realm would be the best occupation for me. In 1986 I married Brian Jaeger, whom I met on my first job at First Wisconsin as a computer Programmer. We lived in West Allis for 10 years and then moved to Elm Grove where I still live. We never had children but spent 30 wonderful years travelling the world and making some wonderful friends and memories. Brian died suddenly in Oct. of 2006. My career during those 30 years and now has covered MANY jobs. I worked as an employee for FIrst Wisconsin, M&I bank (edp auditor), Blue Cross (programmer analyst), Allis Chalmers (Analyst/programmer lead). I decided in the early 80's to try something new. My husband, family (parents) and brother in law and I decided to create a new company and start automated insurance quoting for independent agents. THis business thrived for over 10 years until we decided to close the doors. During that time I also taught for MATC and worked with the Jewish community center and CETA to help retrain people who were losing their jobs. THis training was to give them the edge in their fields. I found that this opened up the door to also teach other courses and help establish new courses from the emerging computer occupations that were starting up in the 80's and 90's. I started my own consulting business with students who became clients. In 86 I decided to work as a big company contractor and started wearing 2 hats - one for mainframes and the other for PCs. That has actually continued up thru today. Now as for the social life... I loved to travel. So Brian and I took every advantage to do so especially since we did not have children. We were not tied down to our home. We have travelled all over the US...Expand for more