Valerie Gravuer:  

I was a single-parent - must have done something right - my son graduated from Penn State, and has been teaching high school for the past 5 or 6 yrs. He teaches English, Journalism, Public Speaking, is on the Newspaper, on the Yearbook committee, and if he has time - helps with school musicals/plays. He got promoted to Dept Head of the English department last year, and also got his Masters degree. (he always had a great work ethic since he was 15- Thank God!). In a nutshell: I did some modeling in my mid-twenties to early thirties; became PA-State Certified as an EMT (when my mom was diagnosed with Emphysema), and volunteered with the rescue squad for a couple yrs; got laid-off from the accounting firm that I was working at and so I moved up to the Poconos (to get away from alot of stress) . . . moved back down here because the job market wasn't too good up there . . . eventually ended-up at the job that I'm at now, doing Quality Assurance monitoring on the Abbott Diabetes Care program that my company has a contract with. Each of the Quality Assurance monitors have a team of 25 customer care reps who troubleshoot/train people on blood glucose meters. Calls come in from individuals, doctors' offices, healthcare facilities, etc. , and we have to monitor so many calls per wk on eac...Expand for more