Returning to Work

A Special Needs Mom’s Journey

Years ago I left work as an Environmental Informatics Manager. I had worked in Water Quality, GIS, IT, and even Floodplain management for years. I’d been a computer programmer, web designer, database manager, and more and loved it. Every week was a new challenge. I had a group of students doing work for me and one person under me that was full-time. My life was spent juggling all the work things asked of me at the same time as juggling my kids. With my two older kids, daycare had been a common part of life… When we got to the youngest who had taken a long time to…