I was working as in-house general counsel and treasurer for a New York City-based real estate developer in the 1980’s. We built a high-rise in NY City and hundreds of single-family homes in the suburbs. I was working six days per week, twelve hours per day. ​ I recognized that I needed better balance in my life and returned to California where I became a director of finance for a global wireless telecom for seven years. Again, I was working six days a week, failing at achieving the work/life balance I was hoping for. I transferred to an assignment based in Tokyo. Same workload, only more so, often seven days a week staring at a computer screen. At the end of the assignment, I knew it was time to finally get myself some sequential life balance.​ At this point, I was an Open Water Diver with very extensive dive experience.​ - Let’s become a Divemaster…  it’ll be fun… - Eight months later – PADI Divemaster… - Eight weeks later – PADI Instructor… - Five months later – PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer… - One month later – PADI IDC Staff Instructor… - Soon thereafter – PADI Master Instructor… - Now – PADI Course Director, DAN Instructor Examiner and AVELO Instructor. Almost twenty years later, I teach people to teach people to have more fun. I have contracts with several PADI 5 Star IDCs. I am a traveling Course Director. When I get on a plane to a tropical destination, I smirk as I identify I am traveling for business. I haven’t worn a business suit and tie since my corporate career ended; the only suit I wear is a wet or dry suit. The only time I set an alarm is to get to a plane or go to a dive site. I’ve changed my avocation to my vocation and know that every dive is a fun dive, some are recreational and some are training – BUT ALL FUN!!!