Jeffrey Schumacher:  

Life (**new April 2008 update at the end**) After having graduated from college in 1997, I worked for a temporary agency which allowed me to work at Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, the St. Joseph County Bureau of Housing, and Press Ganey Inc. in South Bend, Indiana. Press Ganey hired me full time in Dec. 1998. My parents moved to Florida in July 2000, and I moved with them, being a great help to them in their later years. I finally got a job at Walt Disney World in Sept. 2000. After all, it was the place I had been telling everyone that I wanted to work at. So, four years later, I still haven't made it back to Indiana, and I miss it. But Florida is where I live now and I love my job at WDW. If I could move Disney World to Indiana, I would, but I'm sure you all wouldn't appreciate Disney World being in Indiana. It's different living in "Touristland." (Oh, and I'm sick of hurricanes, officially.) 2007 Update My mother passed away in 2004 from Parkinson's disease, and that fall we got hit with 3 hurricanes in Polk County, Florida. Looking for some way to escape "HurricaneLand," I evaluated my position as it relates to the rest of my life and decided to pursue teaching. I got the idea from my niece, who teaches in Elkhart, Indiana. So I went back to my Alma Mater, Bryan College, in Dayton, Tennessee, in the fall of 2005. I took college classes half-time, and worked at Wal-Mart full time in Dayton from July '05 to May '07, and am presently awaiting the experience of student teaching at Rhea County High School in Evensville, Tennessee in the fall of 2007. ...Expand for more