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Volume C
When you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up?
*Teacher or wedding planner
What was the best course you took in school that helps you today in your career?
*Vocational office education and computer math classes in high school. Both of these teachers were instrumental in talking me out of quitting school in my Junior year, and I'm so glad they were successful.
What do you do for fun?
*Spend time with my 3 sons who are 20, 18 and 16, my husband, family and friends. Organize and chair the Bikers Against Breast Cancer ride for The Rose, a non-profit breast cancer organization. I also love watching DIY shows.
Do you have any hints for girls as they select a career?
*Remember to think outside the box. We all do not start off with our dream job or career, but hard work and taking pride in a job well done can get you places. Ask for what you want in a job and do not wait for others to give it to you.
Talk to counselors about college. I do regret not going to college, but to make up for it later, I obtained a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation.
What are your favorite books to read over the summer?
*I remember reading the Flowers in the Attic series and loving it.
D'Etta Casto-DeLeon
Asset Manager for Commercial Real Estate Portfolio
What did you want to be when you grew up?
Writer
What was the best course in school you took that helps you today?
Journalism
Socialize with my friends
Find your passion and pursue it!
Your favorite book to read over the summer?
Harriet Tubman: They Call Me Moses
Lilly Chu
Social Worker
I provide educational/financial literacy presentations to limited resource populations (homeless, battered women, etc.) and young adults for the Better Business Bureau Education Foundation. I have worked in the non-profit sector since 1995. Prior to becoming a social worker, I was a freelance fashion and commercial photographer for 15 years.
In 2002, I co-founded FireSeeds, a non-profit organization dedicated to giving underdeveloped communities a hand up to independence. They currently work in partnership with Africa Greater Life Mission in Kampala, Uganda, helping an orphans and widows village, and I frequently travel to East Africa to work with local project leaders.
Kim Crider
communications manager for a non-profit organization
- I believe I said I wanted to be a veterinarian
- As much as I hate to admit it, my Speech class! I had a great communications professor. I learned a lot in that class.
- In the evenings, I like to read before I go to bed. I read different kinds of books. Some are self-help, some are fiction and for pure entertainment. My favorite books to read are detective/murder mysteries. My favorite author of these types of books is Janet Evanovich. She writes about a bounty hunter named Stephanie Plum and her escapades. The author throws in humor along with solving a murder. Otherwise, for fun I go to watch the Astros play. I play golf. I go to movies.
- The average person will have five different careers in one lifetime. Try and think out of the box and find something that is your passion. Make your passion your career. Then it won't seem like work at all.
- Anything by Janet Evanovich!
I always wanted to be a biologist, but somewhere along the line, I changed my mind.
English!!
Host dinner parties, listen to live music, and read.
Think about what you love to do, and figure out how you can do it forever.
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Ann Criner
Director of Development for Houston READ Commission
Robin Cavanaugh
Marketing and Events Consultant
Ask for help when you need it, especially if you don't understand something.
People always like to help others when asked.
Always treat everyone the way you want to be treated. Be true to you, but do no burn a bridge.
Every experience leads you to the next step in your journey.
Don't discount any job you hold.
Always do your best and learn from your mistakes.
An Anesthesiologist
English
Exercise, cooking, travel, and spend time with friends and family.
Research the career you are considering and interview people in those fields. It is important to truly understand as much as you can about a career before spending the time and money pursuing a degree that gets you to your goal. It is good to volunteer to work at careers you are considering to determine if your choice is right for you. I also recommend you honestly review your strengths and weaknesses to determine if you have the innate skills to go the distance. Ask for help, counseling, guidance and you will receive it.
My summer reads include classics like Pride and Prejudice.
I always thought I would be an accountant, I loved math. Now I use my math skills to order items, to keep inventory and to do cost analysis for events.
Home Economics
Entertain friends and family
Be sure it is something that you really like to do and then strive to become the best in your field. Never stop learning and then sharing your knowledge.
Danielle Steel- any romance novel.
Event & Wedding Planner
Therese Cole
Event & Wedding Planner: I have the opportunity to work with clients to make their event or occasion memorable. I'm also the Special Events Planner with the Houston Independent School District where I plan district-wide events ranging from award banquets, recognition events, and conferences to large scale fundraisers. I have 26 years of event planning experience. I create unique events with a purpose. I have worked as a professional wedding planner for 26 years, and I am President of ASC Event Services, in Houston, Texas. I have coordinated more than 2,000 weddings, including more than 450 Indian celebrations. My work has been spotlighted in Good Housekeeping Magazine, Beverly Clarks Wedding book and numerous other publications. I am a Founding Sponsor and Director of Professional Development for the Wedding Industry Professionals Association (WIPA).
A fighter pilot
My English classes were probably the most beneficial because they taught me how to communicate by reading and writing effectively.
I like to play with my daughter, Lauren, drink wine, read books, travel and go on long walks.
It is okay to not know what you want to do when you get older. Keep trying out new things and keep an open mind. You may have to eliminate a lot of things you dont like before you find what you do.
Right now I am reading The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver and I am loving it!
Kelly Peterson Cliburn
Senior Associate Director of Development for Texas Children's Hospital
Kelly Peterson Cliburn and daughter Lauren
Terri Craig
Leader, Entrepreneur, Business Owner
Involved in some job working with technology
During my senior year, I had the privilege of participating in a ½ day computer program (for the whole school year) at the school corporations facilities.
Investigate new technologies and ponder their use in business, golf, connect with other women in business, travel
Be flexible -- you never know where open doors will lead you!
When I'm not reading self-improvement, personal productivity and/or marketing related books, I like to escape into some Stephen King!
Angelita Cravens
4th Grade Teacher, Student Council Advisor
"Everyone is granted with 24 hours. What are you going to do with yours?" ~ Angelita Cravens
Motivational Speaker
Spend time with family, travel, watch a good movie, fellowship with friends, read
* 1st - Think big to search for a career that will allow you to fulfill your desires of the heart AND provide for your family financially
* 2nd - Find a mentor or advisor that can help you map out a strategic, educational, career plan
* 3rd - Set goals... Plan ahead or plan to fail!!
* 4th - Have confidence to succeed
* 5th - Take pride in everything you do... Desire to be an asset to the company.
At this time, I haven't selected a favorite book to read over the summer. However, during the summer break, I do enjoy going to the public library quite frequently to check out new books :)
Laurette Cañizares
Advertising & Marketing Manager, Greater Houston Convention & Visitors Bureau
I wanted to be a doctor like my father.
English. Articulate and eloquent communication is a key skill in any career.
Dance, play the piano and shop!
Follow your heart. Do what interests you. Your dream job will change throughout your life based on your interests, but everything you pursue along the way will make you a more rounded individual. succeed
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Either the fist woman professional baseball player OR an Olympic gymnast followed by a medical surgeon
Legal Environments of Business, Project Management and Economics
Spending time with my friends and family, traveling all over the world. I am also very fortunate that I do sometimes consider working something I do for fun!
Take your time and explore many areas. Research the industries you are interested in, even those you think you could never do. Dont pigeon hole yourself into are area just because you think you ought, are expected to or because it is the family business.
I love legal and murder mysteries - Brad Meltzer, Scott Turow, John Grisham. Currently I am in the middles of the series by deceased Swedish author Stieg Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire(the one I am on now), and The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest.
Kristen Cannon
President, The Cannon Affair
Public Relations and Marketing
I own a public relations and marketing firm specializing in small businesses. We are a full service firm that uses a hands on approach to expose, market and brand companies in the areas of real estate, retail, interior design, non profit, hospitality (restaurant, hotel, spa/salon) , products and more.
When it comes to reading always push yourself and never settle on one genre. Try ready a biographical novel about someone who sounds intriguing, then a chic lit easy read, then a suspense thriller. You can never read enough of the classics, nor books based on actual historic events. Reading can broaden ones mind like none other.
Shalon Carnahan
Artist/Mommy
(past careers: Esthetician working directly with dermatologists & Director of sales for genetics company)
Dermatologist
Religion
Have family time
Pick a career that you are passionate about and makes you happy because whether we all like to admit it or not we take our work home with us and it reflects in our home life. Also the reason we all work is to make money so pick a career that enables you to make the kind of money you want.
Light romances
Artist
Business
Shop, Travel, & Movie Fanatic!
Be smart, look at your options, and really compare the facts. Choose something that will not be affected by the ever cyclical economy... and make SURE it makes you happy! If it pays well, then you're set.
How to Be Like Women of Influence: Life Lessons from 20 of the Greatest
Sales Director
Allison Crockett
I'm a Sales Director with Mary Kay. I have owned my own successful business for 8 years. I help mentor & train women to become great leaders and to reach whatever goals they have for themselves.
