Ronald Redder:  

It's been a long but not too eventful journey to get where I am now. Well, it may only seem like a long time since I'm looking back at over 20 years since high school. I continued working at a grocery store for a few years after high school while taking a few classes at Harvard on the Highway (TCJC). Work won out in the near term since I had no idea what to do with my life at the time. After a few years, I got married to a wonderful girl Susan that I still am happy to share my life with to this day (19 years and counting). We still do and enjoy everything together. We don't have kids but enjoy each other's company immensely. About the same time, I "moved up" in my career and went to work at Coca Cola. Over the next eight years, I moved up in the pecking order at work but eventually realized that I should be doing more with my life. So at almost 30, I figured out what I wanted to do with my life, quit my job and went back to school to become an optometrist. I spent three years finishing a biology degree at UTA before enrolling in optometry school at the University of Houston, College of Optometry. It was a challenge to be one of the older students everywhere I went, but I was up to the challenge with Susan supporting me throughout it all...Expand for more