Karyn Sigurdsson:  

Life It's funny sometimes how life turns out, isn't it? I remember being asked in high school what I thought I'd be doing 10 years from now. I figured I'd still be living at home, job hopping and unhappy. Never in a million years did I figure my life would be even minutely close to what it is now. I don't live with my parents still like I predicted I would in the yearbook. I moved away to college right after high school like many people do. I quickly learned that college was not for me. I had a hard time focusing on schoolwork and couldn't decide on a major and was just very depressed. I quit college after 3 semesters and moved back home for a short time. On a whim, one day I decided to go to the U.S. Navy recruiter's office. Within 2 weeks, I was in boot camp. I made it through boot camp and then went to Radioman "A" school and got my first orders - to Keflavik, Iceland. I was horrified. I couldn't imagine anything worse than Iceland. I guess this is about when I learned how to make lemonade. Shortly after I arrived in Iceland, I met someone that I would marry a year and a half later, and by the time we left Iceland we had two beautiful children. I wasn't very happy with my job; Radioman had reclassified to Informations Systems Technician and while I love computers, the job wasn't something I enjoyed. At the end of my tour in Iceland, I put in an application to convert to Legalman, the military's equivalent of a paralegal. I was accepted and went to school in Oct. '02. I did very well in school, squashing all the n...Expand for more