When I first went into college I studied elementary education, mainly because my state offered scholarships for would-be teachers who would then stay and teach in the state. After college I got married and taught while my husband was in the Air Force and then when he went back to college. When he graduated, I stopped teaching. At the age of 35, when our children were 4 and 6, my husband died of a heart attack. I did not go back to work, until at the age of 42, I went to nursing school. I then worked as a psychiatric nurse until I retired.