Brita Pruitt:  

Before I graduated from Kennedy, I had already started at SCC and thought I had planned my life perfectly. But as many of us know, life decided it had plans for me. I transferred from SCC to CSUS and received my degree in English, not in veterinary medicine which was my goal when I started college. After all of those years in college, I wanted to relax and enjoy not going to school. But after a year, I needed to make money, so my cousin's girlfriend told me about a job at MTS(the coporate office for Tower Records, Books, and Video). Although my dream was to work in the bookstore, I took the job and worked at the main office for six months. Luckily for me, a new bookstore was opened on Florin Road. I jumped at the chance, and transferred to the bookstore. I worked at the Florin Tower bookstore for six years until it was obvious that advancement in Tower had many perks, but not a great salary to live on. Throughout my life, decisions about what I should do and where I should go happened not because I analyzed ever step I should take, but because I listened and followed my instincts. A chance to move to Utah presented itself to me and because my brother was in Utah and worked at the Air Force Base there, I decided it would be a great chance to live somewhere else for a bit. The thought scared and thrilled me. I had no preconcived notions about Utah. The only thing I knew was...Expand for more