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...back into school for a degree in computer science at age 40. With degree in hand, she began a high-tech career that included stops at Digital, Apple and IBM. This time, however, she didn't need someone to tell her what she was interested in. While at IBM, Dibner started taking sculpture classes, riding the T to Boston's Museum School after work. Once she decided to accept an early-retirement package and devote herself to professional sculpture, she threw herself in headfirst. That meant, initially, a very rigorous study of the basics, including form and technique. Then...
...Jean Dibner...
Once upon a time, Jean Dibner was a senior vice president of Avid Technology, a digital film-editing company. Now she spends her days carving granite and clay as a sculptor--but she's the first to admit that the transition "didn't just happen." Yes, she volunteered for early retirement in 1999, thinking that after raising four children and sending them to college and being a major breadwinner, "it was time to do something that was really energizing to me." But there's a lot of ground to cover when someone switches from running worldwide businesses, traveling nonstop...
Those hours weren't as lonely as they might have been for some. Dibner's husband Andrew also left a technology career (he founded Lifeline, the personal response service advertised with the unforgettable tag line "I've fallen and I can't get up") to work on his sculpture as well. Still, the change from having profit-and-loss responsibility for $300 million in revenue and 350 employees to waking up each morning and staring at clay in the basement took some getting used to. "You work so hard to get yourself where you are, and a part of your...
...that's a small price to pay for leading the creative life. "So many people say, 'Gee, I'm so envious. I wish I had something like that,'" says Dibner. "But I believe that everybody does have some creative response to life. You just have to figure out what...