The day I left home for good was not planned or expected, and although I do not think of it often, I decided to share it. I want to express to everyone, that no matter what you think life will hand you, it is not always the way it pans out. We have dreams, expectations, and of course, responsibilities, but what is going to happen can not always be predicted. I finished my first year of business school. Since I wanted to model and quickly realized I was not tall enough for it, business school seemed more practical. I could still remain in the fashion world surrounded by what I loved. I decided to go to the shore for the summer and get a job. I moved in with a close family friend of my parents so I could work and save money. Life dramatically changed…. I got a waitressing job in Atlantic City which I hated from the get go. I then would visit a friend at her job in a nightclub after work and tell her of my unhappiness. She introduced me to her boss and I was hired on the spot as a bartender. I left the old job of waitressing. My bar nights in this nightclub were the off nights basically when no one wanted to work but I made a killing. The rest of the story is history, and printed in my book “Everything’s Okay”, but the short version is after the summer ended I decided I did not want to go back to school and needed to decide what I wanted to do with my life. Well, long story short,I met my husband, began running the same club with him, learned about business hands on, and 35 years, three businesses and two foundations later, here I sit telling you the story. I do believe it was my path, but it was an odd way to find it. I never moved back home, eventually getting an apartment with some girlfriends and eventually moving in with my now husband soon to be married. Boy was that not the plan!
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