I retired from my job for medical reasons a couple of years ago (at the initiation of my boss). I had been for approximately the last 10 years of my career employed by the same company. It is a medium sized ($40 million revenue), publicly traded medical device company. For 9 of the last 10 years, I was its Controller (in charge of all internal accounting and finance functions....payroll, receivables, payables, SEC reporting, budgets & forecasts as well as certain external areas...our annual external audit, tax, compliance, legal requirements). I had a staff of 5 people and reported to the CFO. In my last year with that company, I stepped down from being the Controller to a position as the "Internal Process Improvements" manager (responsible for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, etc).
When I left that job, I was a bit lost for quite some time about who I was at that point in my life.
As mentioned in an earlier post, I woke up one morning and spontaneously started to write poetry.
So, it looked like I was drifting toward the creative side of myself. I've had a long standing interest in the visual arts but basically not much in the way of formal education. Took a few adult education classes, a few courses for the general public at Filoli Gardens and worked for a couple of months with an actual artist on my drawing skills.
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