Brenda Barber:  

Well, here's my story. After I graduated from SDSS in 1981 I attended UBC and gratuated from there in 1987 with a Bachelors of Education. I decided I didn't want to teach afterall, and there were not very many jobs for teachers at that time unless you want to move to another place in BC, or China, and I didn't want to do either of those so I went in to banking, and got a job at the Royal Bank as a loans officer. They put me on the loans officer training program, which took 8 months, and then I got my first posting at the main brach in Langley. So at that time I moved out for the first time, to an apartment in White Rock, and I am stil here. Everytime I got a promotion at the bank they would transfer you so I went from Langely to Cloverdale, then back to White Rock. At tihs time I was nearing 30 and decided I needed to do something important on my 30th birthday and so I bought a condo, not far from the branch I was working at so I could walk to work. I worked there in that position, which was Executive Account Manager for 4 years, and during that time I met the man that I would later marry. John (my husband) is a commercial fisherman, so they are gone a lot, which I didn't think would bother me because I had my job and a social life with my friends,...Expand for more