PaulRVA, I moved to N.C. right out of the Navy, in fact a month or two ahead of my appointed separation to accommodate starting school at UNCG in grad school. I really liked Greensboro a lot and tried to stay there, but my job moved me to the capital, so I located here. I grew up in Illinois, started school at U of I in Chicago, transferred to Missouri for journalism.
So I kicked around for about ten years, must have moved nearly every year. With the Navy spent time in San Diego, the South China Sea, with stops in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Spent most of my career with a part of the National Institutes of Health in N.C. writing and editing in various roles. Pretty enjoyable, many different assignments and some travel.
I'd always visualized myself as a print journalist or teacher, but those jobs were pretty spotty by the time I returned to civilian life, not just finding them, but advancing. However I was a faculty spouse for more than twenty years. I was a widower for ten years, and then remarried a friend from journalism school in Missouri. An episodic life!
