Rhonda Glynn, 58, worked in the field of aviation for decades but she always felt like something was missing. That missing thing for Glynn was the attainment of further education.

Today, Glynn is a PhD candidate after getting her bachelors and masters degrees in her 40s.

Through her business Zoma, she is also encouraging mature women to go after their dreams. The survivor of domestic violence works mainly with female entrepreneurs.

Glynn’s business, started in 2018, offers one-on-one coaching, brand management, entrepreneur-based workshops and business planning.

She said she started doing the workshops because sometimes women may not be able afford a full business strategy. The workshops are less expensive.

Another compelling factor for Glynn’s attainment was after leaving school with just four O-level passes (now CSEC), she felt that that part of her life was unfinished.

“But in my time to go on to higher education was more about money and less about ability,” she said in a phone interview.

“So I did a couple of jobs and then I went to work in the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (AATT). I started as an estate constable.”

Her starting salary was then $1,700.

“But I always say I did not choose aviation, aviation chose me.” Over a period of time she got promoted and moved up the ranks.

During her time there, Glynn did different courses in aviation that resulted in her becoming an internationally accredited aviation instructor.

“During that period of time, I became an instructor and also a trainer. But nevertheless, I still felt as if my journey was not fully complete. It was almost as if I had industry-specific knowledge but I needed something to balance it off with.

“So when I was 40, I went back to school. It was my first opportunity to actually bite the bullet and go in the deep end.

“I remember telling someone, I did not care if I was going to learn to make toolum. This was unfinished stuff and I felt so much a failure when I only got four O-levels because it was not for the lack of ability. It was for the lack of opportunity.

“So I always felt that was always so much unfinished work.”

She took and topped every industry-specific aviation course that was offered in the region and so going back to school was the next logical next step.

“Because my background was in security I went to Cipriani Labour College where I did a certificate course...it was really to test my ability because I was moving from industry-specific to job specific. But I would also be competing with people who were not my peers,” she said.

In her first certificate course she did she got all As.

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Glynn said she was shocked because she had never tested herself at that level.

“And you know there is nothing like justification for making a decision to make you run forward,” she said.

This gave her lot of encouragement, and she skippe