Shannon

Given the long list of crazy jobs I’ve had, I guess it only makes sense that I would work in a place with the word “zoo” in the title. In addition to the semi-adult jobs I’ve had including a seven year stint with a division of Morgan Stanley and four years recruiting for an art college, I served a brief stint as The Little Mermaid, Snow White, and The Pink Power Ranger. I have crafted some fine balloon animals in my day, led karate demonstrations, and sang with a little bluebird on my shoulder. (I’m not making this up.)

I took five years off to be a SAHM and a part-time writer when I had time (and even when I didn’t.) But due to a little issue called Sanity, I returned to work and am now serving humankind by combining my skills of matchmaker, interviewer, hard-ass, writer, salesperson, and Mommy. It’s funny how it seems most of my clients and candidates seem to need all of the above.

Thanks to my parents’ crazy wanderlust, I might be part gypsy. Not so much the free-flowing skirts and the jangly bracelets part of gypsy, but the insatiable search for a place to call “home.” My first memory is of moving. I was four. It has become an on-going theme in my life. By the time I was seventeen, I had amassed thirteen schools and twenty-one different residences spanning four states and two continents including high school in Australia.

My clan at home includes a client-side Web Guru husband and the two best children in all the land. I’m training them to lead the rebel forces one day. Good Jedi they are. Strong with them, the force is. (Or at least that’s what Yoda tells me.)

As for my Talent Zoo clan, all I can say is I’m not the weirdest one here by a long shot. You gotta love that in a family.