I’m a strong independent person and I always thought that I had my life planned out but things took a big turn five years ago and I got stuck in a rut. I from a small town and in high school I was living large-and had the life that you see on the movies-the perfect teenager. Perfect friends, perfect boyfriend, it was all perfect… but then college came I run to Murray State with excitement-thought it would be perfect too, boy was I mistaken. College had responsibilities I had never had and I had no idea what to do there. So like many 18 year old students I partied and had a heck of a time-until December came around and things weren’t so perfect. My grades were in the toilet so I moved back home and enrolled at PCC.

I graduated from PCC with an Associate in Arts degree May 2003. I thought that was all I needed and I would move up in the government office I was in and that degree would be sufficient for the rest of my life. For the next four years I busted my tail to be perfect again-I went above and beyond worked forty hour weeks and volunteered work another twenty hours a week as a 20-something sixty hour weeks were hard. But I was working toward a goal. A big promotion-I honestly thought it would pay off in the end. Then in April of 2007 I was fed up and things didn’t go the way I thought they would so I enrolled at Mid-Continent in order to get a bachelor’s degree and get the heck out of county government.

Thing this is that county government is an idea job when being a secretary is sufficient as a career choice and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that and it’s paid my bills for the last seven years. But I want more, I want respect, I want to be treated as an equal person, not run over because I’m a women. Politics is hard and I for one am so tired of it. My love of politics has ceased to exist and if anyone decides to go that route just know that it’s a long hard road.

Now I’m determined to graduate with honors and be the first in my family to have a Bachelor’s degree. I’m ready to get out of my rut. I want to be able to get up in the morning and smile and know that I’m appreciated. I won’t settle for anything less.