When I was very young, 1950s, I was always very clear on being a dental hygienist, which was a 5 year allied health sciences BS degree.
I did not receive proper guidance counseling in high school.
Thus by the time I got to university, I was unprepared for the hard sciences, calculus, trig, etc.
I sought out on my own to work as a dental assistant in a private practice.
This was great and led to my being hired at the university dental school, in a parallel
program to dental hygiene, but new and cutting edge.
All of that opened up the rest of my life for me.
No, I did not stay with dentistry longer than 5-6 years.
That old restless BP perhaps? Story of my life, over and over.
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Traveling west back toward Eden (interestingly the wise men in the Gospel account of Jesus' birth came from the East), has been full of confrontation with
the trials and tribulations of living outside the Garden.
She is an artist without doubt disappointed that paradise was not as close in 1969 as she and so many others hoped it was. Her work is now filled with the reality of humanity's failure to achieve the prophetic dream of her song, but never without the hope that that day will yet come.