Just want to take a minute and say special THANK YOU to STEVE SHERMAN AND GINGER MUMPOWER for helping me start my own successful business and teaching me everything I know about jewelry and sales. I would not be where I am without these two people. I extend my lifelong gratitude and bow to this people!!! Steve and Ginger, you will always have a special place in my heart. Words can not describe how grateful I am to you. Thank you for helping me find myself.
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Steve Sherman hired me as his personal assistant and I grew into a sales executive for Jewelry Marketing company, one of the leading diamond wholesalers in the country. One year later I was hired as Operations Manager/ Buyer for Ginger's Jewelry a successful privately owned retail jewelry store. 4 month in a Buyer position, 5 month as a Diamond Sales Consultant total of 9 month in Virginia. The store was sold to a chain and I quit and started on my own. Now I have a face and freedom to work as much or as little as I choose to. Goodbye corporate world and welcome to a lifelong vacation where I love what I do and can't even call it work as it is pretty much a fun hobby :-)

Steve and Ginger, thank you so very much for giving me the knowledge and tools to make it such a success!!!

If anybody loves jewelry and need Christmas presents feel free to call me. Would love to help you :-) I will be in Russian all October, so call me in November and December !!!

By the way before this happened I have a huge list of odd full time and part time jobs and assignments. Let's see

1) George K's Greek Restaurant Office Manager, started as a hostess

2) Verizon Cell Phone company customer representative

3) Crown Nissan marketing research assignment

4) La Fiesta Restaurant hostess

5) Libby Hill Seafood waitress

6) Teacher of English as a second language in Russian university and hight school

7) Library clerk

8) Merill Lynch financial company intern

9) Office clerk in shipping and receiving department of Alamance community college

10) Math private tutor

11) Model

12) Baby sitter for multiple families

13) Interpreter for international conferences and music festival

14) Retirement house leisure coordinator, arts and crafts organizer

15) Cocktail waitress :-)

16) Travel agent and tour guide

17) Greene Peace volunteer

18) Professional student and scholar, I actually made money studying and teaching ("US Senate Scholar", sorry but I love to remember that I've done something special)

19) Teacher and manager at a private language academy in Russia

20) Somewhat ex pro athlete in basketball, track and field, ballroom, and many other sports

I could probably throw in a couple of other odd ones.  I am glad I had a chance to try it all out not that i plan on stopping :-) I still want to teach, I want to paint, I want to continue dancing, want to continue doing charity work and bla bla bla .... I have lots of ideas I'll keep you posted :-)

When they say that "Grass is greener on the other side" they are actually right sometimes. I am glad I was never afraid to quit and move on to something better, more meaningful and significant!!! I am 26, I've done a lot to find myself and I AM HAPPY now!!! I am sure I will get lost and have to reinvent myself and put the puzzle back together many more times before I transform into past life but now I am in my own NIRVANA!!! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL!!! Special thank you to everybody who helped me along the way!!! I really appreciate it!!! If anybody ever has doubts, if you hate what you are doing an wish you were somewhere else, I would be the first person to say "JUST DO IT" "IT IS WORTH IT" "LIFE GETS BETTER AND BETTER IF YOU FIND THE COURAGE TO MOVE ON" "DO NOT STICK TO THE STINKY PAST IF YOU HAVE ONE"

I love my past and more then that I love my present and I am sure that the future will be even better!!!