Karen Bridegam:  

Life After graduation from Jacksonville University with a double major in German and French, I returned to live and work in Germany, where I spent my Junior year. I landed a job with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and took care of Hong Kong's participation in all sorts of trade shows all over East and West Europe. I married a German man and have a now 32 year old son. In 1982 I returned to the US, divorced, and got into the tourism industry, as Executive Director of a tourist promotion agency. Not for me, though, all of those hours! So I got into tobacco sales. Also not for me, all of those hours! Finally I studied to become a massage therapist and at the same time, I also landed a job with a German company in PA, for whom I worked as the Employee Benefits Representative. Unfortunately, due to the wonderful German SAP program, my job was eliminated in September of 2003. I had my own massage practice on the side, and worked for a chiropractor one evening a week. I ...Expand for more