| l started to write a book once before~shorOy after retiring t sales M retirement from a twenty-five-year career in direr.. , ~- so many was less than a week old, and I alreaay xnew w~,y J obituaries include the phrase "He retired last year." In fact. 1 lived across the street from a mortuaD; and I began to wonder if I should iust call them up and tell them to "come on over." Building my career and caring for my family had been eye.thing to me. 1 never liked those things other people ed to en o for relaxation For example, I never had time seem I Y . . absoluteI hated ~ how to lay games like tenmS, and I YII to learn P the same. And cocktail parties. To me, work and growth were without my work I fotmd that I had no reason to get out of bed each morning. Thus, after retirement, the only thing left for me to do was , to think back over those active, productive yeatS. During my career I had faced and solved many problems that are umque ~,i to women in business. Much of the Lime I was actually handi- I capped or held back by outdated ideas of what a woman should and should not do when working with men. "Maybe," I thought, "i~st maybe, I could use my experience to help t other women over these same hurdles." That s when I decided to organize my thoughts by writing down all the lessor~ I had learned. When I began this exercise I was filled |
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