C6 - Sunday News, December 7, 1980 women ee - Enjoyment the key to success FROM PAGE C1 move from a position as a physical therapist working with Vietnam veterans into the high-powered, fast- paced world of business. “There comes a time when you are so disconcerted and uncomfortable with the way things are that you have to move and do something -- or, you cut off part of yourself.” So she went back to school and obtained a degree in administration and communication. “I had to teach myself what management was, taking classes. studying at night, giving up a lot of the beer parties that some of my friends were participating in and generally educating myself.” Next she developed a career plan for herself and started creating “my first ideal business world job. And since this was a fantasy type of experience for me, | wanted a fireplace, a place where | could look out over the bay, a place where | could bring my dog... the opportunity to talk to anybody in the business community at any level for a legitimate business reason. And don't you know -- that’s exactly what I got!” She developed a California-based company in Washington, dealing with execulives from the media, business, industry and manufacturing, working on contract resolution and team building, “all based on my experience of dealing with people in the health ser- vices.” From there, she DONNA NUNN established her own con- sulting firm and later created the Women's’ Business Exchange in Seattle. Her services entail not only business logistics but per- sonal development as well. Betty Fata was working for a lumber firm when she and three friends” got together one evening and decided to put $25 a month each into a kitty, assuming that by pooling their resources they could better maximize their profits. They started buying real estate (at the time, still possible for a minimal in- vestment), had some suc- cessful sales and are still in that end of business. “But then we decided, after a couple of bottles of BETTY FATA wine one night, that maybe we should think of going into business for ourselves... We had no idea what todo.” With one eye on the present and the other looking ahead, they decided that in the future people would have more money but less time. 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