Alan Kinstler:  

Life I spent the first six years of my professional life as a supervisor of educational media at the University of Cincinnati. I spent the next fourteen years in a progression of sales and management positions culminating as Product Marketing Manager for Solartron Instruments Div. of Schlumberger in Farnburough, England. My offices were in New York and LA and I still lived in Finneytown. I commuted everywhere by airplane and was home five or six weekdays a month. My wife Betty suddenly died in August of 1985. It became very difficult to be an attentive dad to a teenager. I tried for a little over a year but I soon realized that Angela was growing up too fast. She was getting spoiled by the trips to meet dad in NY, LA, Toronto etc for weekend visits when I couldn’t get home. She was more familiar with Harold Square than Fountain Square. She was 13 going on sixteen. I took and early out option during a restructuring to stop the traveling and avoid a relocation move to Boston. In September of 1986 I married a nursing school classmate of my first wife Betty. She brought two children with her. I had always been interested in the printing business so I decided to buy a franchise printing business in 1988 so that I could stay home with my daughter and new wife, Jill. I spent nine years building, operating a successful printing business. After selling it in 1997 I was a self employed Marketing & Management Consultant...Expand for more