I remember now. My first love was art. And I always wanted a horse for Christmas. When my Dad took me to the races (at 13), when I saw the horses running down the home stretch, I had a premonition that I would be a jockey one day. My first job out of high school was at a gas station, where a horse trainer happened to come in to buy gas... and offered me a job at Pimlico. I worked at the East Coast tracks, mostly Maryland, Delaware Park, the Meadowlands in NJ, and Charlestown, WV till I was 28, never got a break to ride in a race. I worked at Sagamore Farm and Polinger Farm Corp. breaking yearlings and 2 year olds. In 1976 I was thrown from a horse and broke my back. Healed up and went back to riding. Had to give up that dream bc I was getting too old...
So I went to college and worked at a few Data Processing companies and majored in Computer Sciences. Then I met DH and quit school and work to take care of his children (one is Special Needs)... just took local jobs to help out. I worked at a Plant Nursery growing azaleas, then went to work for a few vets. I went back to college part time, changed majors to biological sciences, but all the programs I looked into were for full time day students. Took a job at a snake breeding facility (Albino Boa Constrictors)... that was my last job. Then I had surgery on my back. Now turning back to more artistic endeavors.... lol. |