1. Attended four different colleges. Quit 3 of them. Did finally graduate for which I laud her.
2. After finally graduating, she worked as a sports anchor at Anchorage TV station KTUU. Quit that job to become a stay at home mom.
3. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission - served less than one year and then quit.
4. Alaska Governor - served half of one term and quit.
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As Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska over the July 4th Holiday weekend, the thought entered my head that this is not the first major life endeavor that she has given up on before its successful completion. As a person who was laid off from my job of 10 years, and who would dearly love to find a good job, this type of habitual quitting is disturbing.
Palin was appointed to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission by then Governor Murkowski in 2003, serving as Ethics Supervisor. Palin resigned from the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission after less than a year in service, in January 2004, protesting the "lack of ethics" of fellow Republican members. Strangely, she was able to spin the resignation to her advantage and ran successfully for Governor on a ticket based on cleaning up ethics violations.
Prior to quitting as Governor, and quitting the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Committe, you can see signs of Palin's lack of perseverance in her college career. Here is the paragraph from Wikipedia listing her varied and sometimes very short lived tenures at four different secondary schools.
After graduating from high school in 1982, she enrolled at Hawaii Pacific College in Honolulu. She left after one semester and transferred to North Idaho College, a community college in Coeur d'Alene and spent two semesters as a general studies major in 1983. In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant,[13][14] then finished third in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant[15][16] and won a college scholarship and the "Miss Congeniality" award.[11]
In August 1984, she transferred to the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, where her older brother, Charles W. Heath, was majoring in education.[17] After two semesters at UI, Palin returned to Alaska and attended Matanuska-Susitna College, a community college in Palmer, for one term in the fall of 1985. She returned to the University of Idaho in January 1986, where she spent three semesters completing her bachelor's degree in communications-journalism, graduating in May 1987.[17]
Palin also has some other jobs on her resume including a job as a sports anchor at Anchorage TV station KTUU. She quit that job. Here is a quote from Conservatives4Palin.com.
She eventually landed a great job at the Anchorage station KTUU as a sports broadcaster. She got good at it. She probably could have gone all the way with it if she wanted to. But she didn't. She decided it wasn't for her. She left to raise her kids.
The very idea that Palin would be considered as a possible Presidential contender is ludicrous. Can you imagine this picture.... the economy is bad, there is a war, the country has problems with leaders and press in other countries. What does the President do? Quit? I hope not. Please let us chose candidates for office (in both parties) who are steady, dependable, even tempered people who can work with others.
