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Is a college degree necessary for success? Yes, Yes, Yes! I am forty-three years old. I was wooed by MCI Telecommunications during a job fair in my senior year of high school in 1982. They were impressed by the fact that at eighteen I had lots of work experience. Not only did I take the usual after school babysitting, tutoring, cashiering, route but I had worked during my Junior and Senior year as a part time receptionist/file clerk after school and on Saturdays, and I knew the basics of office life pretty well. MCI had invited me for an interview along with four college graduates actively looking for a job, I still was undecided. I took the train ride down to the city and before I got home from the interview they had called and left a message with my mom saying that they wanted me to consider taking the position which was available two weeks after graduation. I really wanted to go to college but I was undecided and even though I had parents that were always supportive they were also very old fashioned and grew up in an era where they felt, a college education for a girl was unnecessary. They would have let me go if I so chose but there was no encouragement. I don't blame them it was the way they were raised. They believed prince charming was going to come and sweep me off my feet and I would have a big house in the country, with four children and live happily ever after as "Miss June Cleaver of the New Millennium" Well guess what, that never happened.

As it turned out, prince charming was busy and his court jester actually showed up. Being young I had this fantasy of what a wonderful life I would have, and even though he was silly and immature he would change the minute we said "I Do", so I decided to forgo my college education and take the job at MCI, after all they chose me over four college graduates because those women had never worked a day in their lives, they only had classroom smarts and no practical experience, I was the lucky one. The lucky one indeed. I'm sure now twenty-five years later those four women are very grateful for their college education even though it cost them one silly little administrative position.

I loved my job at MCI, I made the same amount of money that I make now twenty five years later, but I will explain that later. I was married two years later and my first baby a year after that. Everything was on track, except I was on the 1955 track and it was actually 1985.
In 1988 I had my second baby, I was

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