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Switching from an executive job at 51 to working for myself as an entrepreneur was difficult for me.

It was 1994 – before wide use of cell phones and personal computers. A day job was mostly a day job. There was little work to do after the sun went down and your colleagues were at home.

But, working for myself as a type A individual, I floundered for a couple of years at setting boundaries between work time and personal time. More opportunities (more work) to expand my business was always there – 15-feet from my bedroom.

In 2000, I landed an unexpected job in Manhattan, six blocks from the Towers. That again required some adjustment but gave me more structure work-wise for the next 10 years.

Working from my home in Wisconsin, I would use Messenger to clock in at 8:00 a.m.,

my time to work with my colleagues in New York and around the U..S.A. as a senior online content developer. I signed off at 5:00 p.m. It was one of the first instances of working virtually from home before it became more acceptable 20 years later during the pandemic.

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.* When have you successfully adjusted to new circumstances in your everyday living?

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