This became a daily routine and in this routine I became comfortable.  Perhaps too comfortable.  Too sure of a "sure thing."  This was about to end because my period of service was nearing its end.  As had happened in my life before, I was now about to embark on yet another journey.  Once again, questions filled my mind.  What would I do now?  Where would I go? How could I leave?  So many unanswered questions.  I wasn't finished with what I had set out to do here. Somebody, however,  was listening and somebody answered. because almost a hundred entrepreneurs came along and met with me and talked with me, wined and dined me.  I finally settled on a young gentleman who seemed to have the same aspirations for medical transcription as I had.  His main focus was to have me work with him in a production unit.  I asked him where he would get his employees.  That led to discussion of establishing a training center for medical transcription and in three weeks a full-scale training center was ready for occupancy.  We advertised and received over 1000 applications of which 140 were accepted.  We taught our first group of students covering medical terminology, English, pharmacology and computer labs with additional personnel assisting me.  We struggled, but we made it happen.  Two months later, we began a second group, again with 140 students, with a second floor classroom and computer lab identical to the first one.  At the end of six months we were ready to move into OJT and production.  Then came a third floor unit for the production area and now we were on our way. I was given a challenge alright, and met the challenge...not once, not twice, but three times.  I am proud to say that I was able to meet that challenge every time.  Now, people were taking notice. 
 
From this beginning, I took on the challenge of starting up seven more centers throughout the country.  We fulfilled our tasks of doing training and assisting the setting up of the production units to provide employment for the students.  The responsibility now lay with the employers who approached us for this program.  We continued this program for three years when my newest and yet another challenge came knocking on the door.

Once again, this meant leaving the comfortable confines that I had known for almost eight years but I was ready for a new challenge.  So I packed 'em up and moved 'em out to my new home far far away from this comfortable resting place.  Before me lay yet another new challenge of meeting new people, a new country, a new language, new culture, new everything to get used to.  We cleared the way by meeting with the prime minister and other government officials who would be responsible for granting the approval for this program to be run in this country.  The ads were run, the information seminar given, the testing done, the paperwork out of the way and another new horizon to be discovered.  We trained 200 people and set up a production unit for the employees following the training process.  We were met with a lot of skepticism, of course, because it was something new.  We were foreigners from another country. They had been burned badly before by foreigners so they looked at us with a wary eye and wondering if we were going to be "like the other foreigners."

During the second training course we received another request for the setup of yet another training center in another country.  Suddenly I am country hopping and the flight attendants even know how I like my coffee because I'm back and forth so much.  Here, again, is yet another challenge,  another country, a new group of people with new cultures, a new language, and an eagerness that could match no other.  The government was the strong backer on this one. I met the  prime minister of this new country I am about to embark and I was working closely with government officials to carry out the task that was before me.  Interviews with the news media for news releases were set up and carried out, TV interviews were carried out, ads were run in the paper, the field and career of medical transcription was being made known around yet another new country.  Everyone is excited for this new adventure to begin.  Information seminars were conducted and testing was carried out for around 300 people to start with.  We had seats for only 120 to start with.  The training center was established and done well.  The computer lab was set up and done efficiently with all stations and computers placed for the new classes to begin.  Experienced personnel were brought in to carry out the task of training yet another group of aspiring medical transcriptionists.