Colleen Jessup (now Kennedy):  

Ready? Right then! After graduation from high school, I went to UCLA where I studied under the degree heading "Biological Sciences". The idea was that I was pre-med, but in my junior year (when it was time to get ready for the MCATS), I decided med school wasn't for me, and that was the beginning of quite a bit of randomness. I decided to travel a bit after graduation (3 months backpacking through New Zealand and Australia), and when I returned home I took the first job I could find, which was as a project secretary for a construction company. Pretty far removed from biology (but still on the UCLA campus)! When construction was almost finished, I went part time there and found another part-time job doing massage at a chiropractor's office. That was a lot of fun, so I got a certificate in massage and started my own business. Even though I loved interacting with people, it was physically very hard work and I honestly couldn't see how someone small like me could keep it up for very long, so I put a resume in to Amgen (on Marlo Yoshimoto's advice), and got a job there. Thanks, Marlo! Interspersed throughout the above story was the romance with my now-husband, S...Expand for more