Howard Osborne Poet Rhyme

PORTFOLIO CAREER

PORTFOLIO CAREER

One could say I’ve had a portfolio career
Starting off researching in pharmacology
Slow solid progress, but make no apology
But no drug found to save mankind, I fear

I dallied with training some clients to drive
I also designed a machine to analyse EEG
Otherwise known as brainwaves, you see
But it was for other goals I had to strive

Then I became part of the computer age
A wondrous time of so much innovation
Application software, fourth generation
Business calculations leaping off the page

Of the financial markets, I heeded the call
Directing projects for banking worldwide
Such an unreal environment, but I tried
Yet city pinstripes never suited me at all

I managed services for the criminally insane
Or at least those with a psychiatric history
But even the medical staff posed a mystery
I left in time, and never worked there again

Then staff recruitment in the public sector
Sourcing talent nationally and also USA
Social workers, both the blue and the grey
Another business where I was the director

But there was just time for more consulting
Social care projects, promoting prevention
And saving public money, a worthy intention
Clients’ reversion to old think, often insulting

Then finally came my decision to walk away
Retirement, with time for travel and writing
Letting out all that poetry inside was inviting
Almost five thousand by the end of the day

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