The two-year cycle

My vocational life has had a two-year cycle. That’s about the longest I have stayed at any one vocation over my working life. Straight out of college I went into business and it took about two years to run through that cycle.

One year off in a bathrobe and then it was life insurance sales, once again, for about two years. That was followed by law school, which took three years. I sold real estate during that time.

In sequence, after graduating law school, I was an officer in a construction company, president of a wholesale supply business, owner of a construction company, corporate officer for a real estate developer, partner in real estate development, trust attorney, workers’ compensation attorney, as an employee and then in my own practice.

Along the way I divorced and remarried. Raised my children and my step children and at some point stopped attending church at all. It was in 1989, on the threshold of my 40s, that I came back to church involvement.