Pat worked in clerical and editorial when she decided to leave the job force to attend the University of Kansas. It was the years of "Don't trust anyone over thirty". She was thirty. After she graduated with a degree in Advertising and Editorial Art, she found that her "advanced age" handicapped her in getting work. Stubborn, she spent one and a half years finding that first job--she's worked everything else as a temp. She went on to work twenty plus years in graphic art. Ten of those years taught her computer graphics.