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Before coming to Israel I studied English teaching with a minor in Hebrew. I enjoyed teaching, and English teaching seemed like the right thing to do in Israel.

Thanks to the student open-enrollment rebellion in CCNY in 1969, I was able to graduate with that degree in English. I can't say that I enjoyed my studies. I did not like the literature that was taught. My instructor almost killed my love for writing.

I considered my own way of life, and I decided to study for Masters degrees in Librarianship and in Psychological Counseling. The degrees did not cost me anything because I received academic scholarships. It was a pleasure to study things that I really enjoyed, and I did very well. I was also able to bring more documents to Israel. As it turned out, I was able to use the librarianship training for three years before I made aliyah, and for seven years thereafter. My direction did change after that point, however.

I would never have been able to do computer-related work without my studies in librarianship and guidance. Both of those fields gave me a feeling for organizing of data and for understanding the things that people really need. I also needed to receive respect by waving these documents at the right people so that I could go on to other things that I also loved doing.

Other articles described my educational bckground in English Education, Librarianship, and Psychological Counseling. You may ask, what do all of these degrees have in common?

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The answer is they were all fields which interested me and which I felt had potential for me in Israel. Since I was basing the decision for my education upon recommendations and suggestions from acquaintances who had been in Israel or who had lived in Israel previously and from pen pals I could not be completely sure that it reflected the situation perfectly. I therefore did the best I could. I gave myself various options.

These options did indeed serve me well in the future.

I would recommend therefore that you people others get whatever education higher education they can in the States before coming and to get a variety of possibilities based upon recommendations of others. The truth is that I worked in all of these fields while I was in the States but my main source of income was in none of these.

Israel does many things with people’s backgrounds and degrees but I would have never been able to reach the situation that I have today without this background.

In the early 70s as I realized that it was time that I would be seriously working towards moving I had various changes. I got married but I was really only interested in finding another American who was interested in living her life in Israel. I think that you should mention that you found such a person. I then together with the other degrees and the work that I was doing the fields which I had studied, I also began to be involved in the Aliyah movement in the United States. This was another move which I would recommend.