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Walk of Life: A Collection of Stories and Essays
By: Zoya Schmuter M.D.eBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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Exploring subjects from the challenges of retirement to an array of travel adventures to reflections on the vagaries of daily life, author Zoya Schmuter presents in her book a collection of essays and stories that capture personal moments, but also make insightful connections that link universal experiences.
The essay "Retirement Coming" addresses the concerns of many professional people fearful of the retirement proposition and who are challenged by the necessity of restructuring their life. "We Borrowed Grandchildren for Swiss Vacation" shares a funny tale of a warm and fulfilling relationship during a two-week vacation trip to Switzerland of the grandparents with their grandchildren, ending with unusual adventure caused by flooding in the Alps. "The Bavarian Castle" tells a romantic story of Schmuter's week in a beautiful castle in Franconia where the underground path led her to the professional encounter with ancient mummies.
From New York to Florida to the Poconos and beyond, Walk of Life offers a plethora of stories that explore both conflict and epiphany.
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| Title of eBook: Walk of Life: A Collection of Stories and Essays | |
| Release Date: 01-24-2012 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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Walk of Life: A Collection of Stories and Essays
Chapter One
Retirement Is Coming!
Decisions, Decisions
By the end of summer 2007, I started frequently thinking of my retirement. After all, I was approaching my seventieth birthday in October. My husband Sam was telling me that, in his opinion, it was "indecent" to continue working.
"At seventy, no woman works as a medical examiner," he said. "Do you know one? It is time to retire. If you do not retire yourself, they will make you very soon."
The deputy of the chief medical examiner in charge of the Bronx office, Dr. G, was a decent person with a good attitude toward me. I thought I owed telling him in advance, if I indeed decided to retire as of January 2008.
I really began agreeing with my husband that a woman of seventy had to retire, considering my present position as a medical examiner and my years of work. But retire to do what? This I did not know as of yet. Soon, I noticed that with all these thoughts, I was losing interest in my work. I still had an excellent and—well-trained memory and continuous interest in medical literature and periodicals, considering our broad professional exposure to different medical fields; however, the routine office work was becoming less attractive, if not boring. And I did not like this new feeling of boredom.
Our conferences, for one, started to look like uninspiring formalities. I had a feeling that discussions of complicated and questionable cases gradually disappeared and were replaced by the demonstration of cases that had already been discussed and approved by the boss. The same topics of one-hour lectures were repeated
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