I've been a busy person since the age of 13. Taught Swimming lessons in Snellville, GA: Worked for A Daisy a Day Florist 4+ years; Worked at McDonalds, Lifeguarded at Briscoe Park and the University of Georgia.My Adult career started out during the early 80's during an economic downturn. I graduated from UGA and got married at barely 21. I could not find a job teaching & ended up working for Davidsons (Now Macey's) in the home goods department where I soaked up info about the best items & how to treat china and silver. I've always been able to "talk to a post" so every customer was quizzed about what they did for a living. That led to my first teaching job at "The New School in the Lost Forest" teaching teenagers with various issues. Not long after I started that job, a job I had interviewed for came open. I worked at Ridgeview Institute as the art and upper-level math teacher for about 6 years with a quick stent in Cobb County at Belmont Hills Elementary School teaching art on the cart. (Worse year of my career!) During the last few years of teaching, just after I had my daughter, I picked up a part time gig selling athletic bathing suits to swim teams for a brand called "The Finals." That led to the SWIMshop!An incident with private daycare caused me to resign from Ridgeview Institute and go full time into my own SWIMshop business. I started in my basement by adding brands such as TYR, Speedo, Nike Swim, and Dolfin to my offerings and grew the SWIMshop into 4 stores with 20+ employees over the years. We maxed out at 1.2 million in sales around 1996-1998 when I opened a large SWIMshop in Savannah Georgia. (That store stayed open and on good terms with Chatham County for 20 years!)In business, you must adapt to changing environments. During the years leading up to the Covid-19 shut down, I closed the stores (All were in Aquatic Centers) and did "Pop Up” stores at aquatic centers like Mountain View Aquatic Center in Cobb County. Our web store was very popular & eventually 60% of sales were web site, 25% team sales from on-site fittings, the balance was from swim meet/ sales. Pop Up stores.During the Covid-19 shut down, I put my employees on unemployment while I kept the small number of sales going. That is when I began working in clay again. As we came out of the shutdown the business environment had changed again and we closed in 2022. Terry 2.0 I run Airbnb in my home, am a fulltime potter/instructor, Treasurer of the Cherokee County Republican Women, member of the Canton Rotary Club, & appointed to the advisory council for DBHDD.