Sure glad I no longer have those deadlines, and I had them almost daily. Between newspaper and magazine columns, plus voice-overs for car commercials and auto dealership TV commercials, I never got to sleep. Thank goodness those days are longs since gone. Now I'm in the slow lane. I no longer need to go fast, even when traveling. Guess that's why I bought a sailboat - sure can't go very fast on wind power alone.

Russ is right about the opportunities - there are loads of them out there, and all that you need to do is go after them and have the skills to get the job done. Of course, you will have to do the usual, self-marketing things as well or you won't get those jobs. I even had an offer once to become an auctioneer - I kinda wish I would have done that. It looked like fun, but it is a very high pressure job. There was an auctioneer school somewhere in the mid-west that cost about $1,000 for six weeks of training back in the early 70s. I only knew two guys that went there and they came back here, opened their own auction houses and made a killing. Both later went into politics - what a waste of talent, but they still made a lot more money. Go figure.