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Judy wanted to be a veterinarian in high school until she went to her veterinarian's office to observe a surgery and fainted before the first cut! Though the veterinarian said she'd get over it, she decided that wasn't the career for her. After high school, she went to the University of Utah and majored in Biology until she took Chemistry 101 and didn't get the hand of it and didn't like it. She decided she wanted to be a Math teacher until she went to a local school and found out she didn't really like being around high school kids all day. So she continued taking math classes which she really liked. But she still thought about being an Architect or an Oceanographer until she found out Architects don't make much money for a long time and Oceanographers have to go to graduate school forever. So she graduated with a BS in Math when she was 22 years old and didn't have any idea what to do next. So she went skiing for 7 years, lived in the mountains, waited tables, tended bar, and had a really good time since you're only young once. Then when her 29th birthday got closer and closer she decided she had had enough of being poor, waiting tables, and having no health insurance so she went home to Mom and Dad and looked for a job. Her first job was at a pancake restaurant and sticky syrups got the best of her in just a few days. Then she tried cocktail waitressing at a big hotel until the loud music, smoky air, and silly customers made a desk job look good. So she got a job as a secretary at the very university she had graduated from 7 years earlier. After 6 months she got her first 'real' job as a Data Analyst at the very Air Force base her father had worked at for over 30 years and that she had sworn she would never work at. She was worried when on the first day her boss gave her a book on technical writing with the introduction "Write so your mother can understand it." But she stayed, learned all about cruise missiles and writing so anybody could understand it and enjoyed a steady paycheck, health insurance and really enjoyed the challenge of the job. That was almost 20 years ago and since then Judy has been in the
Engineering field in the areas of Software Testing, Configuration
Management, Requirements Analysis, and Systems Analysis working
with ballistic missile and satellite systems and telecommunications
systems. She has a nice house and car and is a mother to a fine
young son who is even more hardheaded than she is. She is forever
thankful to have the skills to work in the Engineering field and
still enjoys the challenges she finds every day she goes to work.
She wants to be a GEM-SET mentor because she wishes she had had
a mentor when she was younger and she hopes to encourage young women
to go study the Sciences and not be afraid or turned off by Math
and Engineering.
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