People First
When my daughter came home from a school trip exclaiming, "I want to be an aerospace engineer!" I was thrilled. How many people can say that they have a teenager who actually knows what they want to be when they grow up? I don't even know what I want to be when I grow up! For my daughter, who busts her butt to get straight A's, to say that she wants to go into a field that will require her to bust it even harder made me very proud. Of course, in my own mind, I took all of the credit for instilling in her the work ethic, creativity and problem-solving skills one would need to make it in the field of aerospace engineering. It was a very proud moment for me. She didn't feel restrained by what many would see as traditional gender roles when it came to careers. Having moved to the South, the very birthplace of Redneck, from New York, the bastion of liberalism, (or so people think...it's really not), I was worried. I worried that the culture would wear h