Did you have other jobs?

Hello, I was just wondering did you have other careers besides being an incredible author? I heard you were a teacher for awhile, did you enjoy it? did you enjoy your other jobs? By the way, I wasn’t lying when I said you were an incredible author! I can’t wait to read whatever you have coming out next!

I started out thinking I would be a teacher, simply because my mother had been a teacher.  But I had been writing little “books” since I was in the fourth grade just because I loved to make up stories.  When I was sixteen, I had a short story published in a Sunday school story paper, and received a check for $4.67.  I discovered there were many other story papers and children’s magazines at the time that were looking for good stories, so I wrote more and more and tried to make them all better.  I eventually reached the place where I could have supported myself by my writing of short stories.  I went to college thinking I waned to be a child psychologist, but writing was just so much fun that I finally decided to write full time, and have been writing ever since.  I did, however, have several part-time jobs along the way:  playground supervisor; locker room attendant; clerk in a store; clinical secretary,  third grade teacher;  newsletter editor; and an editorial assistant.