Age 18. What were your plans? What did you

[Squinch]

11. I couldn't be farther away from what I thought my life would be at 18, and I couldn't be happier

about it.

I was the tail end of the last generation that was taught that women might work a little, but the ultimate goal was marriage and stay-at-home motherhood. It wasn't really anything you thought about, it just was, though I had little enthusiasm for the prospect.

Instead, when I came of age, there were suddenly opportunities for women to work at meaningful jobs outside the home, and it became permissible for us to conduct our relationships without marriage and with a lot of leverage, which was exactly how I wanted to do it.

I became an executive, did that for a while very happily, learned how to handle a certain amount of power while I was relatively young, and then switched to a health field to satisfy that "give some back" impulse.

I came of age exactly at the time that the exact right life for me became possible.

PS: GREAT QUESTION!!