Michael Miles:  

Life Having written this once when first subscribing, the text never saved or posted to the site, so at my sister Karen's urging over a period of the last several months, here I go again! Thank you Karen! First, to anyone reading this, I hope that you and yours are well! After 25 years of living in Los Angeles, I must admit that I still think of Michigan as home as it will always be a source of so many wonderful memories in both high school and college. It was from Troy Athens to U-M/ Ann Arbor that I went in the Fall of 1978. I was at U-M just long enough to complete my Bachelor's degree, having majored in Accounting & Finance with a minor in Psychology. The ink wasn't even dry on my diploma when I relocated to Los Angeles where I began a banking career with Lloyds of London. As much as I thought that I would love banking, I moved on to business management 4 years later when joining a financial consulting firm that catered to the entertainment industry. Managing the business interests of various actors was both fun and rewarding, but the on-call nature of the work (24/7) grew wearisome after 2 years. In 1988, I joined a start-up corporation, first as its Controller, then later as its President/ CEO. Over the next 15 years, what was once a fledgling start-up specializing in repro-graphics (pre-press/ photofinishing) had grown to 90 employees strong and once again, I was starved for personal time, so I broke from that in 2003 and took a year off for "good behavior." Upon returning to work in late 2004, I now work as a Corporate Controller, managing the affairs of 3 different companies whose service offerings are all design-based. As Robert Louis Stevenson penned, "it is happier to travel than to arrive" and surely, I continue to enjoy my journey! Should any of this make it sound like I live to work, nothing could be further from the truth. I met my life partner, Frank, in early '91 w...Expand for more