Fields, Joyce

I started my career as a stenographer at a major utility company, working my way up through supervisor of word processing, then as the office manager for an automotive advertising agency, and, lastly, as an executive assistant at a large non-profit health maintenance organization. I am also a professional proofreader. All of these positions were leading me into writing and becoming an author. In 1982 my first piece was published. I entered a writing contest for a magazine. I didn't win, but they notified me that they still wanted to publish my article. And they paid me $100! They published the...