What a story ...

Shay Taylor had long been a standout student, finishing in the top 10 percent of her class at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Connecticut. But without a roadmap, or a family history of navigating higher education, she went straight to work after graduation in 2010.

“I just didn’t know what to do,” Taylor, 32, tells TODAY.com in an interview. “My mom was a single mom, and we didn’t know anything about financial aid or applications. We were kind of lost.”

A guidance counselor had suggested Taylor consider community college and “figure it out,” she recalls. Instead, needing a paycheck, at 18, she took a job as a janitor at Yale New Haven Hospital.

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@Kay

it's a feel good story... I read it somewhere a week or so ago....

@Cricket_101

more than a feel good, moving. glad she 'figured it out' in time

Always remember a janitor story from my chemistry 101 prof, "janitor one day asked a guy that was working in the lab for years, what he was working on, the guy said a substance to dissolve everything, janitor asked him what he will store that in" prof went crazy because he did not think of storage!

@Kay

Fantastic story.

@nitro

will the gunners choke?