Reflecting on my Professional Career.

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Today, I joined a group of DRW volunteers to participate in the Lunch and Learn event for theGreenwood ProjectThat was an incredible experience! I can’t remember the last time I talked to such an intelligent and motivated group of young people with clear professional goals and the thrust for knowledge. Also, I can hardly remember any other event, including big professional conferences, that would result in that many LinkedIn connection requests. Good job, Scholars!

I was really impressed with the students’ questions! Even after the event, I kept thinking about some of them. One student asked me what helped me to keep moving up in my professional career. I replied, as I usually do, that my biggest motivation was that I loved what I was doing.

Several months ago, I wrotean essay about itin my personal blog. Today, after I answered this question, I wondered whether…

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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