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There and Back Again

Just a few years out of school and working full-time as a cashier at a car dealership, Dayton Area Campus graduate Leah Bomberry felt something was missing. “I kind of felt bad about myself, I needed to go to school, I needed to do something.” Having heard about National’s new campus in Kettering a few months before, she took the big step of enrolling in the Pharmacy Technician program. She was able to complete her program in under a year and was offered a job at her externship site. She then went on to enroll in National’s medical assisting program.

Then her former employer lured her back with a great offer–and about the same time, as part of her medical assisting curriculum, she took Accounting 101. She knew she had found her true calling, and so she changed majors into the Business Administration–Accounting associate degree program. She now handles accounts payable for the same car dealership, and puts her degree (which she completed last November) to work every day. “I enter every single invoice that comes in to the dealership into our computer system,” she explains. She handles payments to all of the dealership’s vendors and reconciles all of the billing statements. And she pays for gas…a lot of gas. “We have a very large gas account,” she says. “We use about 60,000 gallons of gas a month.”

Leah credits her National instructors with giving her both the skills and the confidence she needed to succeed. “Mr. Morris was the best teacher,” she says, referring to Accounting Department Chair Wil Morris. “If it weren’t for Mr. Morris, I probably wouldn’t have made it through accounting…he’s an awesome teacher.”

It just goes to show you that life can work in some interesting ways–but no matter where life takes you, National can provide the education you need to make your career dreams come true.