About
Welcome!
My name is Karen Burton; I am a junior at MTSU with a Major in Graphic Arts and Multimedia Design and a Minor in Small Business Management. I have been working in the printing industry as a designer/typesetter/office manager for over twelve years.
I am a very diverse person and have many hobbies which include; swimming, singing, hunting, fishing, crabing, & camping. I have even tried out for Nashville star several times. I love the outdoors. I love photography and taking pictures of my family and especially the outdoors, my backyard alone gives me a great sunset almost daily and the beach at Daytona is amazing to get pictures of the surf. I have a very playful, upbeat personality and get along great with all personality types.
My family is very important to me and we enjoy spending time together. I am engaged to a wonderful man who has a nine-year old son, Robert, and I have a 16 year-old son named Matthew. My sister and her husband live two doors over and across the street! I love being able to sit on my front porch and wave to them. It’s great they are so close. We also have two cats and one dog (soon to be two dogs), Though we just recently lost one of our beloved dogs to bone cancer, we are dealing well with the loss and are hopeful that we will add another to our gang in the future.
Recently laid off again due to budgetary constraints, I am once again in search of a job. This economy is killing my longevity with employment. You can read more about my previous employment and qualifications on my resume page by clicking here.
I tend to look at everything in life as a learning experience, and my general thought is that if something doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger. These are words I live by, I have been through so much in my short 32 years on this planet and I am looking forward to the next 32.
There are quite a few people who have influenced and inspired me over the years, the first of which is my great grandmother, she is 97 years young, and she gets younger by the day. She is an amazing women who has been through so much and even though she has done her share of suffering, you wouldn’t know it. My grandmother and my mother are also a great inspiration to me, I am surrounded by strong beautiful women. My sister, what can I say, she is and always will be my best friend. Now it wasn’t always this way, but Mom was right, we have gotten so close since we grew up and now I can’t imagine my life without her. My old boss took me under his wing and taught me so much about the type of business person I want to be, my favorite quote came directly from him, “the answer is always no, unless you ask.” I also have a few friends who will drop what their doing to come to the rescue, and have. I am so blessed to be surrounded by so many wonderful friends and my family.
If you would like to get to know me better, check me out on one of my social networking pages at:
www.myspace.com/poodlesdoodles
