On Becoming A Master

In this autobiographical sketch that begins about 1980 and concludes in 1987 my career was moving along with many new and exciting moments. My marriage, I believed was doing fine. We had five children that were growing up and doing what lovely active and creative children do. And above all to me, I believed that we were happily married. We had been moving a lot with the company I was working for since 1968, which in some ways strengthened all of us and gave us experiences that provided us all with growth opportunities. For me it was a time of much concentration on my family's welfare, my status in the workplace, providing adequate finances for the family and taking care that I made something of myself. Many things were missed as a result, but I didn't know it at the time and kept on plugging "ahead," while I forged my path to becoming a master at all I did. There was a price to pay for all that, and I would pay it later with penalties and interest. But that was to come another time and is not discussed in this sketch of my life. I look back on that period of my life (1980-1987) with great interest, comparing it somewhat to the life of Don Quixote who fought with windmills for a good part of his life. His life was a satire as was mine during this part of my life, and so for the reader, I have recorded this period of my life as a satire with lessons learned on how to become a master.