Trinity College Hartford. Class of 61 with marriage to my junior high school" first love" at the end of freshman year. Said marriage cost us my scholarship and opened a world to me of driving Good Humor Trucks and armored car vans delivering money around CT> Graduated with honors on schedule and...
after a short while entered the Foreign Service with wife and infant daughter and was posted to Washington and then Buenos Aires. Two years on post in BA was fun but the reality of the experience did not meet expectations so I resigned.
Entered the life insurance business, and added more incentive with another daughter and began to "build a business." Punched my union cards, otherwise known as the CLU and ChFC and had some success. After some 20 years, the first born daughter, having graduated form Trinity, following her old man in that path also entered the insurance business and then joined with me.
As I approached forty years in the business and was in the process of handing the business over to her, she suggested that she did not want to be in business without me and she thought we should sell.
Fun and games, road shows, SEC disclosures, big mucky muck lawyers in Washington, our very own "prospectus" and all that stuff and a merger with a large regional bank at a multiple that I would not have paid, and, when, I was a senior Vide President, to act as consultant to the new entity. For three years the phone did not ring but the checks kept coming and there was time to spend with the four grandchildren and the house on the Cape that we had acquired along the way.
Life is now comprised of being with grandchildren from ages two to sixteen, two or three cruises with the family per year, a little teaching in the local high schools, acting as trustee in a couple of estates of friends that I helped established, some yoga classes, some pilots, and, all in all, a pleasant pace.