About Sidney Pogatchnik
Sidney Pogatchnik, 32, attended Bakersfield High School and graduated in 1990 from Vista High School. She moved first to Orange County, where she attended Orange Coast College, and later to Marin County, where she attended Dominican College and majored in psychology.
While she studied psychology she made her living doing accounting and is accidentally still doing that to this day.
She currently resides in Killarney, Ireland, with husband Ruairi O'Flaherty. She met O'Flaherty while traveling around Europe. He works as a sound engineer recording, mixing and mastering music and television productions. She works as a financial controller, with hopes of changing her career to interior merchandising.
The two married in Tuscany in September 2003 and are building their first home in Killarney. With the little extra time she has outside of work and house, she cooks, walks in the Killarney National Park, buys furniture and shoes and travels as much as possible. (Oh, and she buys more shoes.) She returns home to Bakersfield at least twice a year.
Sidney Pogatchnik's article is being published as part of The Californian'soccasional "Letters Home" series. Bakersfield residents who are living, working or traveling abroad are invited to submit commentary about their experiences. Send articles to Opinion Section, The Bakersfield Californian, P.O. Bin 440, Bakersfield 93302, to send them by fax to (661) 395-7380, or by e-mail to opinion@bakersfield.com.
