 My name is Shannon Schultz. I live in Nina, Wisconsin, and I'm currently attending Fox Valley Technical College and UW-Stout. Right now I am studying the Information Communication Technologies Degree at UW-Stout, all of my credits from Fox Valley Technical College transferred. I get to pursue my degree, and I didn't know that I'd ever get back to doing, so I feel pretty blessed. I attempted or attended school, I'll say loosely, several times previously, and I was not ready for that experience. I met my wife in 1995, and my life changed, and I wanted for more, for myself and for her. We had talked about me opening a business for painting, and so I went back to school, and that's when I found Fox Valley Technical College the first time. I was able to experience success here, and that prepared me to kind of have my first real success as a college student. I was able to go into business, not lose money, but not make a tremendous amount of money. Colorblind painters probably isn't the best business plan. At a certain point, I got a job working for a point-of-sale distributor, and worked there for about 15 years. I really needed to make a change when I saw my family growing up, and that they needed my help, and I wasn't around much because of all the hours that I had. There wasn't options for a person that had very specific industry knowledge, but really didn't have a certification or an education that would give me the choice in a career. I did some looking around again, and remembered my success at Fox Valley Technical College, and came back in 2013, and it's one of the best decisions I could have ever made in my life. People here were really encouraging me to explore, hey, you're getting this second chance to do this. Take the time, slow it down a little bit, and see what you really want to do, so they were awesome. The career planning process is really looking at their personality, their interests, their aptitudes, and skills, all of that, rather than just picking a career based on what someone thought you'd be good at, or what you thought sounded interesting to you at the high school level. So when they come in and do that, it also gives you a better feel of what you bring to the table in terms of your career goals. We then help them look at, in depth, that particular career. So they really understand the career that they're going into, and then the final piece was we help them with the decision-making process, and then how is that going to work into your busy life? If you're working, go to school, if you're a parent, whatever it might be, it's our job to help them look at that holistically, and how that's all going to fit into their life. One of the big reasons for coming back was being able to determine my own destiny. If you've ever had a doubt about going back to school, or if you can do it, or if you can figure it out, come and have a conversation with someone here. I ran into so many challenges over the years, but every one of those was met with someone who said, I can. When I had those conversations with people here, and they were more than happy to help, and they believed in me probably before I did, and it was awesome. It was life-changing.