No, I'm not sick... It's just a little cough...

We've been passing around a cold in the office... and now it's my turn. Yes I'm sick! Coughing my lungs out and sneezing like crazy, but I still manage to write.

I don't like to call in sick and stay home because I was raised believing that there is no reason to stay home no matter how sick you are. We were not allowed to skip school because we were sick. The only reason I liked school and even college was because it was "social time" for me.

I didn't go to school to learn, I went because I had friends and could spend time with them. Somehow I manage to make it thru with OK grades and even a high G.P.A in college. Lectures and homework were not fun for me. I very much enjoyed classes that were hands on... such chemistry, math, physics, and computers. Everything else was not fun! Memorizing wasn't fun. So now I look for ways to make learning fun... I choose a career that will constantly keep interested and that I would enjoy. In college I was lucky I had professors who were out in the field and had not been college professors for years and only cared about making sure your answers in the test would match theirs. I had teachers that were consultants for companies such as Motorola, Nextel, Microsoft, Sun Systems, the U.S. Navy, etc. They brought different views to the class and real world experience. They didn't make us spend money in text books that would not be used or give us tests that did not apply to the real world.

I will always be thankful to those teachers for making college interesting and fun for me! And is thanks to them that I enjoy my profession so much now that I won't call in sick!