| What began as a hobby has become a full-time | | | | counselor,working in a busy community-based mental |
| obsession. I refuse to refer to drawing as a "job",that | | | | health facility. There are no more staff meetings, |
| would defeat the original purose of what I do. | | | | schedules or mountains of paperwork to deal with. I |
| It began as a search for some part-time way | | | | now spend my daysat home in my studio,listening to |
| ofaugmenting Social Security. I needed enough | | | | vintage rock'n roll music and creating caricatures from |
| additionalincome to keep the wolves away and | | | | photos people send me. |
| facilitate my beingable to focus exclusively on art; the | | | | I'm not getting rich, but I am comfortable and, more |
| fullfillment ofa life-long dream. | | | | importantly, much more at ease with myself and the |
| For the past three years I have been making | | | | world. I have succeeded in making retirement a truly |
| thetransition from my previous life as a mental | | | | "golden" experience that has rejuvenated my spirit |
| healthcounselor to that of a semi-retired caricature | | | | andreplentished my hope for the future. |
| artist. | | | | I strongly encourage anyone who is comtemplating |
| It has been one heck of a trip, but well worth thetime | | | | what to do with themselves in their later years, those |
| and effort. | | | | who do not necessarily see themselves fishing or |
| I feel very comfortable saying to one and all that | | | | playing golf until they're planted, to consider a similar |
| I have now made it to where I had always wished | | | | course. Turn your hobby or latent passion into a |
| andhoped I could someday be. My list of art | | | | means to a happier, more productive retirement. |
| clientsnumbers into many hundreds and include not only | | | | For me, it was art and caricature drawing. Whatever it |
| ordersfrom nearly every State in the Union, but also | | | | is you've always wished you could do, remember: If |
| from adozen foreign countries as well. I have divested | | | | not now, when? |
| myselfof the stressful routine of being a full-time | | | | |