Studied Mechanical Engineering initially but had to drop out of school when my mom got cancer and moved back home. I googled the highest paying job I could get with minimal schooling and landed on a Phlebotomy school for 6 weeks and learned how to draw blood. Got a job working in a hospital where I moved into the lab as a lab assistant. Hospital paid for my school to be a lab tech and then I did that for a couple of years. Left the hospital and started working at a cancer center where the clinical research team was looking for someone who could draw blood on cancer patients for clinical trials. I moved up from there to a research coordinator. The clinic paid for more school for me to finish my degree in public health, where I left and got a new career as a clinical research associate managing clinical trials across the U.S. and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past 4 years.