This is my first Blog! If you are interested in knowing a little bit about my background, keep reading; otherwise, stay tuned for possibly much more interesting blogs in the future, I split this bio story into two parts because it is kinda long. Stay tuned for Part 2!
Part 1:
My full name is Nita Celeste Steffanic-Barnes and I am the granddaughter to immigrants from Spain and Czechoslovakia. I am the daughter of a Marine who defended our country in three wars and who married my amazing mother. I am the middle child of seven siblings and we grew up during our Dad’s assignments in Barstow, California, twice, and at Camp Pendleton, California, twice.
After I graduated from Oceanside High School in 1970, I attended a year of community college in Yuba City, California, worked a summer at Fotomat in Whittier, California, and then received my Associate of Arts in Business from City College of San Francisco in 1972. While attending college in San Francisco, I resided at Twin Peaks with a friend, was a live-in babysitter at Pacific Heights, and finished the last month of school living with my sister’s friends on the Presidio Army Base.
For the last semester at City College, I thought it “potentially useful” to switch from typing and shorthand classes to Computer Science classes. Stress was high when I barely passed COBOL with a C- because I needed those credits to earn my AA degree. I needed to support myself and I wanted to stay in San Francisco. Right out of college I interviewed for a secretarial position at a newly created office at the Bank of America World Headquarters in San Francisco. Being rusty at my typing and shorthand skills, I failed the entrance exam. God was looking out for me though because when I promised the Vice President of that office that I could do the work, he took a risk and hired me!
End of Part I.
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