My career came to an abrupt and unexpected end!

I wondered who I was now I was no longer defined by what I was

I had been 'the boss' to a hundred or so people, and I had been 'the boss' since my early thirties. 'The boss' was part of my persona; I liked it that so many people liked to work for me, that I had moved on so many careers, solved so many questions, moved so many forward and suddenly that was all gone.

I missed it when it went.

Now I am my wife's husband; my children's father, my grandchildren's grandfather.

I used to be a has-been