The Ides of March
No, today is not the ides of march, that is tomorrow. Today is actually Pi day which is cool all on its own. But the middle of March is relevant to me in many ways. In late February 1992, I walked into my supervisor’s office and said - ‘Beware the Ides of March’ - he had no clue what I was referring to (not even the Shakespeare reference) - so my next sentence was ‘the middle of March is my last day, I quit”. I was in a job that was never my idea, the technology was changing so fast that I would have had to go back to school to keep up and stay relevant. While I was good at what I did, I actually found the work tedious and simple. Telecom/data management/systems engineering was not my forte. In early 1992 I made the decision to jump out of a career field I had no interest in to completely change my life. I had spent the past 2 years applying to medical schools. The first year was of denials, I think they thought I was a housewife that suddenl...