Valerie P. Foushee - On her career after leaving UNC (clip)
Interviewed by Tracey Barrett on March 26, 2012
TB: So after you left you mentioned that you were working full time, what job were you working at?
Valerie Foushee: I started out working part time while I was at Carolina for the Chapel Hill School system driving a school bus and being a bus monitor, and then I got a job at Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and I worked there for almost five years. And from Blue Cross and Blue Shield I started working for a private company, Research & Evaluation Associates, and both of those jobs allowed me to use my skills for writing and my mathematics skills to move up. And at Research & Evaluation Associates I was a bookkeeper who prepared all of our documents for the CPA, and the CPA was always telling me how good my documentation was, that they never had to worry about the information that I forwarded and that sort of thing and so I kind of stuck with it until I left there. I was laid off from that position but I started working for the Chapel Hill Police Department shortly after that. And I did a number of things, but I started out as a records clerk, making about twelve, a little over twelve grand a year, and that was the beginning of my career at the Police Department and I stayed there for 21 years. When I left I was an administrator, without a college degree.
