Q: What did you do after you left the classroom?

“I worked for Computrac, training teachers to use technology in their classrooms, for two years. They were actually purchased by RM Education and I worked with them, still training, for another two years before they were bought out by Troxell Communications. I later joked with my newest manager saying if these companies wanted me that badly, they could have just paid me the 8 million dollars directly! I told him that I may have even taken 5 million saving them 3! Again, I continued training with Troxell for two years before the decision was made to outsource the training. A training department is a costly expense. I was in the air at least twice a week, spent five days a week in hotels, trained and presented in 28 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands…I loved my job! I was asked to stay on as a sales rep for Northwest FL and tried that for four months before starting a job hunt in instructional design, sales aren’t my thing, education still is.”

“Having created training for multiple software brands and hardware on top of my teaching adults for six years, I qualified nicely without a degree in ID. I am now at Bisk Education where I started out as an ID, became a lead ID, program manager, and am now a Scrum Master as we have become an Agile company. I am currently working on my MA in Organizational Leadership (a free perk to my job!) as well as a Professional Certificate in Agile Methodologies (also a free perk!).”