OBRA: The Art of Work

Jennifer Maxwell, ABOC Optician/Supervisor | Eye Care Center, Fullerton, CA I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I was a young mom, I had...

Claudia Endler Jewelry designer I’ve always had an interest in design: clothing, jewelry, shoes, handbags. My mother was very creative...

Bettina Swigger CEO of Downtown SLO I am the CEO of Downtown SLO, which is the downtown business improvement area and we are a nonprofit...

Sara McGrath Family Resource Specialist at Parents Helping Parents I’ve done so many different things, and it’s all connected to life. It...

Where I began was in the mid-eighties, I was working in the jewelry industry in sales in Australia and my background was in opals.

I was 16 when I started to work and I went to retail, like Windsor Fashions and Wild Pair Shoes at The Block, Pier1 Imports, and then I went

Writing and food happened separately. I’d always communicated well through writing. But I never thought about it as a job.

Erin Olsen Director of Operations, Kaua‘i Humane Society This was definitely not the career path that I had planned or knew that I would...

Denise Disharoon Falconer Falconry is thousands of years old and it’s the tradition with taking wild quarry with a trained bird of prey,...

Terese Pearson Pearson’s Port Usually for articles, they want me to start at the beginning of 51 years ago at Pearson’s Port, which is...