Susan Friedrich:  

After graduation, I moved back to Pittsburgh. PA with my family, and started working at the company that my father worked for that September.. In 1978, I changed jobs when I was hired at Dresser Industries, Inc., in the Computer Services Division. I worked my way up through many different jobs while attending Point Park College at night. In 1982, Dresser moved their Computer Services Division to Dallas Texas, and I was offered the chance to move with the company. I met my husband, Kip, at work (I'd kissed a few frogs before I was lucky enough to meet him), although we didn't start dating until a few years after we'd met, We were married in January of 1990 and "lived happily ever after", as the saying goes. I continued working for Dresser in the Performance and Tuning Department within the Computer Division, and was the Senior Performance Analyst for the mainframe computers. I left Dresser in 2002 and took a series of classes at a local college and became a Certified Medical Assistant. I started working for a company of doctors with offices around the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. I ended up being the only CMA for a newly hired doctor, and I worked for her until October of 2012. My husband worked for vendor companies maintaining the computer hardware, while my computer jobs were all software related. In 2008, Kip and I purchased a small, 20 acre farm in Telephone, Texas, which is about 80 miles northeast of where we lived. In 2012, we moved to the farm permanently and lived in our 37 ft. Fifth Wheel RV while we were building a living quarter attached to our shop. Our ultimate goal was to build a log home, and we'd actually chosen the company and model of the home we'd build. Regrettably, that never happened. Kip continued to work until February of 2015, driving 160 miles a day for his commute. He either drove the 1 Ton Dually pickup, or he took his Honda Goldwing into town. After we moved to the farm, m...Expand for more