The best thing that ever happened to me was getting laid off from a company I had given 21 years of my life to, in management, marketing and administration. Forced out into the world again, I landed in a new “Active Adult” community working for the developer. Wow!  I think I found it! That elusive “what do I want to be when I grow up” thing, people are always talking about.

Not exactly on a whim, okay, it was a little whimmy, my husband and I dec...