Aaron Lawrence:  

Did a million things right out of HS. Firefighter/Paramedic 13 years. Professional hunter / trapper / tracker 45 years - contract Predator Controller for Colorado Division Of Wildlife for 7½ years. Carpenter for Rocky Mountain Church Builders and now defunct company from Boulder, Colorado - as a carpenter, working with building a dam near Copan, Oklahoma,, as part of the Frying Pan Arkansas project. Contract Timber Sawyer with FEMA fighting forest fires as a sawyer. Worked on four of five fires in Yellowstone in 1988. Also was a sawyer on the Buttercup fire near Lame Deer, Montana. Logger in 5 states (Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and coastal Washington State, while obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (had to feed the family!) at Pacific Lutheran University (graduated Cum Laude 1993 and was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau (International Nurses Honor Society). In 1993, when I completed my undergraduate studies, I also received the US Army "Spirit Of Nursing Award" , and the US Air Force "Nursing Leadership Award. Wasn't a fan of High School but absolutely loved college! Couldn't absorb enough learning. I graduated with 143⅔ credits of a required 128 credits and completed 1,860 clinical hours of a required 1,100 hours. Returned to Colorado in 95 when I was accepted into University of Colorado Medical School. Made a last minute decision however, and withdrew before the start of my 1st semester in medical school. Made me sad, but I figured I had put my family through enough without them having to do me gone all the time while doing internships & residencies. So I took the GRE and was accepted into the Family Nurse Practitioner School at University of Colorado. Winner of "Tamarac Square Scholars Award" in 1998, and received n invitation to complete my Master's Degree at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. I was honored to receive the invitation, but my family had already been relocated 4 times across 3 states, and I couldn't put them through another 1,000+ mile move. I Published my Thesis Research -"Acute Healthcare Seeking Behavior of the Lower Middle Class Along the Front Range of Colorado". Study findings were incorporated into National " Healthy People 2000" project of President W. Clinton. Bound copies of my thesis are in the medical libraries of Memorial Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Evans Army Hospital, Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Parkview Hospital, Pueblo, Colorado; and St. Thomas More Hospital, Cañon City, Colorado. I finished my Master's of Science Degree in 2000. Family Practice Nurse Practitioner practicing until I was disabled at Fort Carson in 2013. Now I live very rural, in the "high lonesome" of the Colorado Rocky Mountains southwest of Pikes Peak. Love the Colorado mountains and dislike when I have to go to town in Colorado Springs or even in Woodland Park, which is the half...Expand for more