Career Lattice

If you could do your life over, what would you change?

You know, I really had a good life. I mean, I really have had a good life. I've had strife, I'm a two-time breast cancer survivor, but you know what? That made me stronger. And after I got through all that, everything looked brighter, tastes sweeter, smelled better. I mean, it's like every day is like, wow, I got this day. This is amazing thing.

Every day is a gift.

It really is. And I've had other challenges in my life. My husband and I wanted to raise a family and I couldn't get pregnant. And we adopted a baby who is amazing. We couldn't have made a baby like this kid. She's a Fulbright scholar. She works at MIT.

Wow.

Amazing. She's amazing. I keep telling her, I want to be like you when I grow up. So my life has been so rich and I really made some mistakes, but I've learned from my mistakes. I think the one thing, if I could go into a time machine, I really think I could have been a more cheesy inspirational leader that would have gotten people really riled up almost cult-like in the for-profit world. Because it wasn't really done very much. It was business. And I think if I could have taken some of my current management style and applied it in the for-profit world, I think it would have been more fun in a lot of ways. Like I said, I've learned from my mistakes. My career was not a ladder. It was more like a lattice. I did a lot of different jobs at the same level, just because I love learning new things. I don't have many regrets and I probably could list some, but you know, my life turned out the way it did. I learned from the regrets, I guess is what I'm saying.