Jacquie Bridonneau:
CLASS OF 1969
Case High SchoolClass of 1969
Racine, WI
Carthage CollegeClass of 1974
Kenosha, WI
Schiller International UniversityClass of 1973
Paris,
Jacquie's Story
Hey hey class of 69!
I've been living in France, in a little town in Normandy, since 1975. That was after I finished doing my MA (in French of course) at UWM. I got married to a French man and followed him back to France, and that is where I still am. I still do come back to Racine and the US in general on vacation, and still have several good friends that I meet up with every year from college, though I don't have any news from people from high school.
So what have I done since then? Well I have two wonderful sons, Nicolas and Yann, and one fantastic dog, Gaston, as you can see in the photo.
I worked with my husband in a family-owned business for 18 years - we sold building materials, basically everything you needed to build your house, from the foundations up to the paint, tile, electricity etc. Like a mini French Home Depot. So I learned how to run a business, do...Expand for more
accounting, HR, sales etc. in this job. As our kids were not interested in taking over the business, we sold it in 1999, and I went back to my first career, which was teaching. But this time it was teaching English instead of French to people who needed it for their jobs. This meant I went in to loads of companies, met lots of people, it was very interesting and rewarding.
And I did that job for about 10 years. But as I did quite a few translations for them, I little by little thought about starting up my own business in technical and corpporate translation, which I did in 2005 "2BTraduction" and started phasing out the English training and ramping up the translation. So since 2010, I have been working full time from home which I love, as my own boss, in French to English technical translation and corporate communication.
So, in a nutshell, that's a bit about me now!
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