Laurie

"Well, my particular career path is a bit all over the place..."

"It was always important for me to understand my clients' objectives, so I had to shape my skills and what I had to offer to those, whatever the project was."

"Unpredictable. Very satisfying. Um, but a little scary in that I never really knew where my next source of income was going to be."

"being an independent contractor is not getting a paycheck every week. That's guaranteed."

"I love working project by project because it gives me a lot of flexibility in my life."

"Learning what to say and what not to say is as important as getting the work done."

"I love meeting people that I ordinarily wouldn't hang out with."

"Finding something that you like or love to do counts for a lot. Not just something you're kind of walking through and not being, um, connected to."

"I did hire someone, um, who wasn't a college person, but she had, um, a lot of research experience so that she could go to libraries and in New York City, and I was here in LA and, um, she was very good at, and she was much more technically electronically aware than I am."

"Being open to hearing, listening, implementing, disagreeing respectfully, offering ideas respectfully, will get the job done far more than aggression."

"the basics, which is the idea that, uh, follow through preparedness, discipline, being able to ask questions without feeling self-conscious"

"I needed to learn how to adapt. I needed to learn how to accept my limitations. I needed to learn how to let go of how I did things before and learn how I was going to do things now."