MY CHILLING EXPERIENCE AS AN OFFICE WORKER In many ways I've been lucky regarding my work experience. For 50 years I was a free-lance graphic designer, illustrator and portrait artist with my own business. It was a sole proprietorship and I worked alone. I wore all of the necessary hats to handle a small business, and wore them well. To sum it up, I was my own boss in my own studio; and thus, insulated from the precarious ride on the roiling cataracts of the workplace. That was about to change. I had weathered 911, The Great Recession, and Covid; but immediately after Putin's Invasion clients melted away and my business shut down. Well, I still had bills to pay, and food to put on the table. I was 75 and knew that, despite the fact that laws in America discourage age discrimination, there's a wink and a nudge regarding those rules; so I turned to an organization within the Texas Workforce that trains and places seniors. It took about three months waiting, and in the summe