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When approaching his tenth year out of college, John Nelson began wondering if he might change to a career in law, a career he had generally thought he might enter back in his teens. In college, he had been an English major with a special interest in medieval literature and creative writing. And on nearing graduation, he had headed toward what had then seemed the more glamorous field of journalism and communications rather than law.  For his first job out of college, he hadjoined a smaller firm editing its employee publications. But an attractive opportunity had arisen several months later when a leading electronics corporation had offered him a job as a communications specialist on the basis ofan application he had made in his graduating job hunt. John had accepted and, over the next nine years, had gone on to positions with the corporation in upstate New York, the San Francisco Bay area in California, and a special assignment in which he toured throughout the country. He found mu...