 Dollmaker's
Community College Biography"Mimi" and Jim Winer |
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| She was a professional model and a restaurant manager before she became a communications consultant and system administrator for Fortune 100 companies. She wore a daisy covered hard hat while supervising the installation of corporate communication equipment in sky scrapers under construction. | He was a super-programmer, a systems analyst, and an application architect for Fortune 100 companies before he quit the rat-race. He hasn't worn a suit in twenty years. He still does technical writing and computer network designs for some clients to help support the business. |
| She always wanted to go to Art school. | He always wanted to be a publisher. |
| They met in a client's office while working together on different aspects of the same job. They weren't very interested in each other until they discovered how well they worked together. | |
| Now she has a warehouse of art supplies for dollmaking in her basement and famous doll artists come from all over the world to teach in the school she founded because she couldn't afford to travel elsewhere. Her husband supports her business because it's still too small to support itself. | |
| Now he has a photo studio, a pre-press computer system, a scanner, a laser printer, a plate maker, a printing press, a collating machine, a booklet binder, and his wife's company to sell the books and patterns he writes, photographs, prints, and publishes for dollmakers. | |
| Now they are having the time of their lives, struggling to help their business survive until it grows up and can take care of itself. | |
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Copyright © Jim and Gloria Winer.
