Now I am a marketing manager of a conglomerate of five different companies. I oversee a convenience store chain – I think we have eighty-nine stores throughout the south of Mexico, and I do marketing for it. We distribute bottled water and sodas. I love my job. It’s a great job, very challenging. If I have kids in the future, I would try to balance kids with a job. People I work for are very accommodating to me because I am very honest, so they are really, really happy with my job. I do have access to a lot of resources company-wise like money, so they are hesitant to have someone else come in and take my job. So I’m thinking we’ll try it. If it works fine, if it doesn’t than fine too. I’m not too stressed about it now. We’ll see how it comes.
I don’t think my life has gone according to plan because I don’t think I’ve ever planned anything. Looking back I’m happy with what I’ve done. I feel like I’ve had a successful life, given the struggles I’ve had, the challenges I’ve had. I’ve grown and learned and am a better person than I was before that. So at this point I wouldn’t do anything different. Losing my dad was the biggest challenge. My mom was left with two kids. We were used to a certain lifestyle and it was hard for my mom to maintain that lifestyle. At an early age I realized that if I wanted to get a good education and have a good lifestyle, I had to work hard to get a scholarship or do something so I could help my mom so she could help my brother also be able to afford school. So I had to work really hard. I had full ride scholarship to BYU-I, I had other types of scholarships there. I’ve worked hard, I know what I want, and I’ve gone for it.
One of the biggest decisions I have made in my life was coming back to Mexico. It was because I had so many more opportunities to be successful money-wise in the US than here. I already had a name for myself in the US, and here I had to start from zero and start growing. That was a hard decision for me. I had to rely on what my heart felt was the right thing and not rely on what my brain felt was the right thing to do, because I was feeling really lonely and that I had to be with my mom. She was getting older. I had to prioritize and see what was important for me at that time in life, and it all worked out.
My hopes and aspirations are that I feel happy with my decisions. Success is defined by your personal goals. So what is successful to me might not be successful to you. I hope that ten years from now I don’t say, “Shoot, I wish I had or hadn’t quit my job.” I think I would like to see my family with kids. That would be one big thing. Right now that’s it, I’m working on having kids and seeing if it comes soon and then I’ll balance life after that. I’ve had my run so I think it’s time. I’m ready. It’s a personal thing. It’s a you and your husband thing. When you’re ready to do it you do it and take it head on.