Janet Barnes:  

My first job was at The Movies Theatre, where I got paid $1.00 hr to work concession stand. What I remember most about it is getting in trouble for studying while at work,. In 10 years, I hope to be alive. I'm going to get there by continuing to battle cancer with all I've got.. My most important do-over or "Mulligan" would be to have taken my academic career much more seriously than I did from 5th grade on! I won a full scholarship to summer semester at La Universidad de Costa Rica at age thirty nine. I lived with a really terrific Costa Rican family whose only house rule was "No es permita para hablar en inglais" (It is not permitted to speak in English". My two Tico brothers taught me the local slang and how to drink the guaro. I share my home with my eccentric hubby and two Shetland Sheepdogs, whio are pretty terrific. So is the hubby! My best friend would tell you I'm humorously philosophical, but people who don't know me very well would probably describe me as a little outspoken, a little bit out of left field, and maybe even a little goofy, but definitely idealistic. I have been a software consultant for many years now, teaching people to use proprietary dental practice management software, Peachtree Accounting software and I am a QuickBooks Professional Advisor. I now would like to spend my time substitute teaching and volunteering my time as a student advocate at the middle school and high school levels, in hopes of salvaging "at risk" kids from dropping out and instilling in them a lifelong love of learning, because it is the ticket to their power, the fulfillment of their dreams, and their magic. My current age is 52. When I was 12, I thought that people my age now would be socially useless and completely boring. I was so completely naive. I would love to see Mr. Paul Lankford again, because when I dropped out of high school in February of my senior year, he not only refused to sign my drop papers, but told me, and I quote "You are the single greatest disappointment in my teaching career. You were going to be the first poet journalist." I would like to let him know that I took those words to heart and did go on to graduating Magna Cum Laude with A.A.S. degrees in Education and Business Administration, and even went on to study Spanish composition and Costa Rican Culture at La Universidad de Costa Rica, have volunteered in a math...Expand for more