MY WRITING AND I: AN ODYSSEY OF SWITCHING CAREERS AND BECOMING A WRITER is a first person account of how the author Jack Wiley made a career switch in 1972 at 35 years of age that stunned his friends. Four years after earning a PhD, he quit his position as a research physiologist and became a writer. This was not an easy decision. His idea (or was it a dream?) was to make his living as a writer and to live aboard and do cruising in his sailboat, Sea Puppy. He was fed up being tied down in laboratories and classrooms and wanted a life of freedom and adventure. He wanted to go off on his own so...