[sionnsar]

Trust me. He eats it up.

Yah. Let's see: I'm no longer plying the trade I learned in college, instead doing the two things I hated/feared most in school -- writing and speaking. In order to do that, the stay-at-home claustrophobe has to spend way too much in airplane steerage class in way too close proximity with strangers, almost always to other time zones, frequently to places where I don't know either the food nor speak the language.

Yah. I'm eating it up. *\;-)

It is usually lower pressure than R&D often was, though. I may still work on the weekend from time to time, but it's because I can sit on the back deck, looking into the woods, while writing magazine articles. And I have photos of interesting places.

Just dodged one proposed speaking opportunity for November. I can't speak at the corporate conference in San Diego because I'll be sitting in technical committee meetings in the Netherlands. *\:-?

[NicknamedBob]

"Yah. Let's see: I'm no longer plying the trade I learned in college, instead doing the two things I hated/feared most in school -- writing and speaking. In order to do that, the stay-at-home claustrophobe has to spend way too much in airplane steerage class in way too close proximity with strangers, almost always to other time zones, frequently to places where I don't know either the food nor speak the language.

Yah. I'm eating it up."

I gravitated to public speaking, and other forms of communication, not because it was my strong point, but because I considered it my weakness. I was determined to overcome my childhood shyness.