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Sharon Eggleston has accomplished a lot in the last five years. She credits SNHU and the four degrees she earned from its Brunswick Center with making it possible.
"I was the perfect example of the nontraditional student. I was in my 40s, I had been working for some time, and I just realized I was missing something in my life," she says. "I had every excuse in the book not to go back to school. But something inside of me pushed me to do it, and taking that first step most definitely changed my life."
Sharon was working as a clerk for Lockheed Martin in Brunswick, Maine. Her husband was in the U.S. Navy and they were raising their son and daughter. With encouragement from her boss, she enrolled at the Brunswick Center, where she first became interested in business education.
"Once I made that decision, there was no stopping me," she says.
Four SNHU degrees later (an associate, a bachelor’s and two master’s degrees) Sharon is a senior project engineer at Lockheed, where she works on ships built at Bath Iron Works. She loves her job "beyond words."
Sharon’s work has been recognized in the community as well. In 2004 she received the prestigious Aerospace Awareness Award from the national organization Women in Space; in October the Brunswick Naval Air Station recognized her with the Joshua Chamberlain Award for her commitment to building a close relationship between the military and civilian communities.
"SNHU gave me so many things - my education, my confidence, my career, myself," she says. "I am very fortunate indeed."
