Rebecca Reed:  

elleair Bluffs and stayed there around 6 months. Right after I quit Albertsons, I started working at a pest control company and hated it; but, it paid well and I stayed for about 3 months since I was in the work program at school. While working at both Albertsons and the pest control company, I also worked at Checkers on Gulf-to-Bay and loved every minute of that job too! I stayed there a year, leaving a few weeks before graduation from high school. I miss that job :-) About 3 weeks after graduating high school, I started working as an Office Assistant for Pinellas County Solid Waste in St. Petersburg. I worked there until February 1998 leaving as an Office Specialist. I transferred to Pinellas County General Maintenance in Largo but only stayed there a little over a year. I then transferred with a promotion to Administrative Support Specialist, this time to Pinellas County Information Technology, in June 1999. Since then, I've been promoted to Programmer Trainee (for one year) and finally to Programmer. My next step is a promotion to Programmer/Analyst, which will happen once I've finished training and programming with the new JAVA Faces language. I thoroughly love my job and definitely can't complain about already being half way to retirement. I've been with the County now for 15 years and, unless legislation changes, I need 15 more before I reach full retirement! In my current position as a Programmer with Pinellas County Information Technology, I support the County's Criminal Justice Information System and work with numerous agencies such as the Clerk's Office, Courts, State Attorney, Public Defender, all Law Enforcement and Sheriff's departments including the Jail, and the State. I love my job and I'm stickin' with it!