It was at Fernald that I learned how to look out for others and how to be a good mentor. Under Westinghouse, for example, we had a great “Partnership in Education” program where we went into the local schools and talked to the local kids about science. I learned the importance of the relationship between business and education in the community. Westinghouse also had formalized mentoring and professional development programs to help woman and young professionals become better at what they were doing. Fluor was assertive about helping you be better at what you were doing or helping you find something else to do. I really respected that.

These days, the trend is to not stay at one job long enough to really develop a family relationship with one’s co-workers. But the atmosphere can still be a much healthier, friendlier, constructive one than what some people are finding. You and I were both lucky in finding such an atmosphere at the same place.

Great post!

Lisa