When did the fire go out? When I went to the company I had fire. I gave up my weekends. I gave up my nights. I thought this was going to be such the thing. But after a while reality set in. I remember being in a meeting with a bunch of people and after I made a comment, my manager stood up and said, "Sometimes we just have to shut up so decisions can be made." I remember thinking in that instant, I'm leaving.

I was working with a person who was selling the company something. He came to the corporate office to sell me something and he called me to meet him in the lobby. I came downstairs and he was standing there looking like he was thinking, "Where is she?" I walked up to him and he was like, "Jory? Jory?" I could tell by the look on his face that something in his head wasn't lining up.

I remember getting the corporate job after graduate school and feeling like I had won the lottery. My mom was telling everyone at bridge meeting for a long time that I had gotten into the company. It was a feather in her cap.