Sonja Santiago:  

of stupid people just so long as the cabbage was still comming. I had second jobs, small part time work getting my foot in the door in animal hospitals, until my people tollarance ran out and the silence of working with animals was so much better! I did everything from the bottom up and mastered every possition to get where I needed to be while doing school on the side to better my work. I was fortunate enough to work with very skilled Dr's, a lot of specialists. I worked into a second job again as a lab analist at Savannah Laboratory. That was an enviormental lab that dealed with top soil extractions and volitles. It was so interesting and time consuming that I stoped working with the animals to further it some more. I worked in the extraction lab and handled different samples of top soil for sonication and chemical testing; until I found out I was preg again! and was moved out of my dept (quickly)and into the volitiles lab that delt with the chemical extraction of the sample and was run into diffrent machines to check how high the levels were. I started to get so uncomfortable for work the further into my preg cause I had to ware protective clothes, and my respitory mask at all times cause a lot of chemicals used to extract were hazardus and lingers through both parts of the labs,(so in other words it looked like I was chasing E.T. all day) I was ready to put in some time of for the baby and we got word that our branch was going to be closed down. I was offered a secure possition at the other branch in GA., and couldnt find it in myself to do it. I stayed with the company till the end and after the baby tried to be the house wife and not work and bla bla bla (that didnt last) I was able to pick and choose jobs, and went through a couple of hospitals, did some human microbiology for a bit (didnt like it!) worked two jobs again, one at a hospital and the other with a D.M.P. Mortgage Co. we were impressed with eachother while in the process of buying my home we started to work together. I stayed with them for 3yrs until I had my 3rd baby. We still stay close and I continue working with Dr.Peter Fleming at Crystal Lake Animal Hospital. Since then I work with him at his practice full time as his asst, and head tech, with Dr.Sami Sullivan doing house calls as her (right hand man) asst, and I have my own home based bussiness I do on the side also. Till this day I have never walked into a PapaJohns and wouldnt eat it for the world!