Gail Farrell:  

Life Some of my oldest friends may remember that I grew up in Murphy Candler Park. At Chamblee HS I was on the chess team, Beta Club, and was one of those pep squad cheerleader wish-they-weres. They let me out early for good grades and I went off to DeKalb Junior during the senior year where Gale Goodin tempted me to write and came back to graduate with the CHS class of '72. After a brief time at George Washington in DC, I graduated from GSU in '78, where I was a psych major and caretaker in the monkey lab for a couple of years. Worked for DeVry Institutes as a New Student Coordinator and traveled around America for quite a while as Regional Manager Marketing and Sales Support. I was a technical writer for Franchise companies for a few years, documenting their systems of operation. Then I moved to England in '91 by myself, which was a bit daunting, then on to Holland in '96, again alone. Was Nortel Networks' Business Improvement and Quality Manager for their European Data Division and Global Customer Care Division for 7 years and got laid off in 2002. Like any QA person, my job was to examine how the company worked and try to make it more efficient, cost effective and customer oriented. Business trips took me to seven major cities of Europe regularly. Sounds great, but you usually see the hotel and the office. You are close to everything you could want for vacations though. Since the...Expand for more