"My daughters have all encouraged me,” Doris Woelk says, “You should go back to school, Mom.’ More than that, though, I always liked being a student. I graduated from high school, got married and have been busy raising a family, managing a farm.” Now a grandmother, she adds, “It’s the right time to go back, to get an education.”

Doris says she loves farming, and enjoyed the world of agriculture that she’s lived in. “It has involved the growing, the marketing and the directing of every single product.” But recently she says her eyes have opened to “a much broader opportunity” and her husband is “very supportive and making it possible” for her to go back to school.

You’ve said you plan to use your education to open a bookkeeping service for small businesses in your area. How did you get interested in bookkeeping?

Doris says she recognized that a lot of people with small businesses could use someone to stop by once a week or maybe once a month to look after their bookkeeping.

“I love people and enjoy working with them, being around them. My heart is in helping other people.”