Some Great Ways to Celebrate Mom

Are you looking for a new career? Have you ever thought about a career in health care? If not, you may want to consider it, especially since health care is one of the largest hiring industries in the United States due to technological advances and a rapidly aging population. Health care is also a very diverse career field. Because clini

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I wish there was a more elegant way to introduce this topic. There isn’t. Not being taken seriously is a complaint I hear often. Women today have a lot of jobs at work, home, school, church and throughout the community. I suppose it is inevitable that somewhere along the way you will encounter someone who doesn’t take you seriously. When it happens occasionally but not often, you can ignore the slight.

Suzy Pitzo’s life is typical, although not ordinary. She was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. Ran track in high school. Packed on the ‘freshman 15’ at Miami University. Got a job out of school working in sales at AT&T, then NCR. She met Chris while working in Chicago. They moved to Atlanta. She started having babies when she was 30 years old.

About 20 percent of women in the United States now have their first child after age 35, reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 1970, only one percent of first births were to women over 35.

Ever wonder why one person recovers quickly from bad news while another remains in despair? Why one bounces back from a divorce while another feels devastated for years? And why one mother can shrug off the fact that her daughter wasn’t invited to a sleepover while another screams at the host until she’s in tears?

We all know what a comfort zone is and most of us have engineered a very cozy one over the course of our lives. The comfort zone consists of familiar routines, people, ideas, habits, foods, movies, you name it. It is a safe place, a place in which to relax because you know what to expect.

Home, where we’ve raised our families, welcomed our friends and became part of a community, can fall into disrepair, making it more of a hazard than haven. For many, it’s a situation that can jeopardize everything we know.

Why is childhood obesity such a big concern, and why is this happening?

Michelle Binks has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. A move to a new city provided her a chance to start her own consulting business and build from her employment experience she had received while working at a couple of large human resource departments.

Ask Dawn Tabat about her alma mater and she’ll tell you she’s a lifelong student of Generac U. Named the chief operating officer of Generac Power Systems in 2002, Tabat worked her way up through the ranks as a young woman from North Prairie, Wisconsin.

For some companies, their “Now Hiring” signs rarely get a rest, even in today’s economy. In the manufacturing sector, for instance, there are job openings in southeast Wisconsin that require specific skills those employers say not enough applicants possess.

Disappointment. It’s everywhere. And sometimes I think women are especially attuned to it. Heaven knows we have our reasons.

Before beginning this article, please note that we featured the following story in our Summer/Fall 2011 newsletter and received so much feedback about it that we decided to turn it into a Sue Ann Says column. A special thank you to St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison for providing this valuable information.