MORE ABOUT ME

Hi everyone I am Annmanda Olson, but my friends and family call me Annie. I have been married for 8 years and have four cute kids; Angellica, Gohaun, Miaka, Jiraiya. You may ask were I got the names for my kids? We like Japaneses cultural and shows so much we had our wedding based off  a show call "Inyasha." So when it came to naming our kids we went to our favorite shows, pick a name from one of our favorite characters. My husband pick Gohaun from the show "Dragon Ball Z," I picked Miaka from the show "Fushigi Yuugi," and we both picked Jiraiya from the show "Naruto." All real good shows to watch if you have a few hours. :)

As for what I am doing now in life. I have just finished getting my BS in Mathematics with a minor in Accounting from Boise State University. Did I all was love math? No, if fact it was just something I could do easily it was not until I got into Mrs. White's Algebra class did I start to love it. In her class we played board games to help us understand the ideas of algebra, this made it fun. But I still did not want to in a math field, I was more into being a HAZMAT person. That changed during high school Biology class. So, after high school I thought oh I take a break from school for one year since HAZMAT no longer held my attention and I needed a goal to go after in college.

Wham, life happened. After being marred for 3 years I decided it was time to go back to school. But I still did not know what I wanted to do. Therefore I sat down and thought about what things during high school might I love to do. I have always loved teaching people new things, so I thought lets be a teacher. Therefore I started my college life with the idea of being a teacher.

I enrolled in an online college stayed there for 3 years before I learned that the degree they were pushing me to was social studies teacher, thus mainly getting my core class out of the way. I dropped out of it and joined Boise State for their spring semester 2011. I was going after being a teacher tell I was a tutor at AVID and had trouble with the praxis writing exam I. At AVID I learned I was not able to handle the middle school students so thought I have to do ether high school or college level students. My trouble with the praxis writing exam comes from my dyslexia and the poor grammar skills I grained from not learning about my dyslexia tell the 5th grade and losing the confidence to do it right. My scores where not that bad, as I only missed passing by one point each time I took it, but that one point is what makes it hard to be a teacher. 

These two factors made me think maybe I like to do something else. So when I was offered to be a Research Assistant for Mary Smith, Ph D. as my senior project I took it. The project is to see if there can be a different way to teach Calculus I, by teaching problem solving skills along side the subject. The idea is that if the students had problem solving skills they be able understand the subject better and get to the right answer. I also took Probability and Statistics and loving looking at the things that can be done with any topic in terms of Math and analysis.

First I though a Financial Account/managers field would let me play with numbers, do research for clients and  do data analysis. So I looked into those fields and had some promise at New York Life. However I have to much medical debt (because I have not had the money to pay those bills with making less then 25k a year for the last 5 years and less then 18k a year 3 years before that with my family size). I learned that with debt the financial account/managers field is pretty much closed because they like their employees to have a good handle on their own finances. I understand this fact and decided to look at an other field that I could work with data analysis and research.

So looking at my opinions and doing some internet research on fields that let me do what I will like I came up with working in Data Analysis and/or Research more on the company side and less on the science side. This might also be called Market Research.