Karen Sargent:  

I always wanted to be a nurse when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a great idea. As it turns out, they were wrong. The closest I got was in 1985. When a Friend and I opened a Home Health Care Agency and got State Certified and Medicare approved. We were in competition with the County Home Health. It was my idea for I felt there was a need to have another agency, so the people would have there choice on who they would like to take care of them once discharged from hospital. I thought I had called the right friend to go into business with, but one word of advise is DON"T ever go into a business with a friend. A friend to me is someone that you are fond of and not hostile; amicable, supporting and helpful. I ended up having to have back surgery and was in bed for six weeks. She then took full advantage of me. I did end up with the business after she sold her shares to me. We lost our friendship over it! When I learned how to relax and blow off steam. Relaxing to me is laying down and letting my mind wonder to a beautiful warm place and only thinking about the place I'm at. I need to do it for at least a half hour then I can go back to what I was doing with a calm relaxed mind. If I'm going to work somewhere, I need to have a good personality, sense of humor, and in joy people to be able to deal with the day-to-day. I have lived in Port Angeles all my live, except when my husband was in the Navy. We first moved to Oak Harbor and lived in housing for year and half then got transfered to San Diego for two years. It was fun down there. I worked as a waitress in a very popular chinese restaurant. I met some wonderful people that just worked there. We would go to Tijuana after work which we worked untill 10:00 or 11:00 pm. There could be up to ten of us going at one time. We would just walk accross the border. The name of the restaurant was the Teapot. The owner were the coolest I'...Expand for more