February 26, 2009

Lessons Learned Early Continue to Guide a Veteran Fund Raiser

I was fired from my first job. I was at the Metropolitan Opera, in the major-gifts department. I was the low woman on the totem pole. I was in the hallway, in the conference room, in a cubiclen — wherever they could put me.

I wanted to be around music. My grandmother, whom I'm named for, was a piano teacher. So I grew up around music.

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