Soon Cuttaia left her job managing car dealerships to pursue a career in social work so she could help those who, like her son, were stuck in what she called "the hamster wheel" of rehabilitation.
He condemned her for her failure to follow him into Christian asceticism, but he left her to manage their estate and make purchases on his behalf.
Her line of work has left her focused on managing the last days of life, partly by encouraging her charges to stop fixating on medicine.
Leah Cooper left her job as managing lawyer for the giant mining company Rio Tinto in February to become director of legal outsourcing for CPA Global, a contract legal services company with offices in Europe, the United States and India.
It was in 2000 that Rupert Murdoch's second daughter left her post as managing director of Sky Networks; today it was the turn of eldest son, Lachlan, the tanned, 33-year-old rock-climbing aficionado to announce he had decided to resign from his executive roles in the company.
Along the way, while helping her son navigate school, Ms. Kavanaugh had to leave her job managing a marketing and design firm.
She loves her job and is puzzled that, given how crucial the work is, her pay (more than £20,000) leaves her barely managing at all.
For years, Marcus had been urging Corbitt to leave her job managing the Driskill Hotel, in Austin, and move to Dallas and take over culinary operations at the department store, his family's glittering monument to luxury in the oil-rich city.
Nicknamed "Alice" by her family, Ali started Alice & Wonder in 2015 after leaving her job managing influencer relations and real-time engagement for McDonald's.
This week, on the way back from a work event (at around 10pm) I listened on the car radio to a fascinating interview with the concert pianist Janina Fialkowska, explaining how cancer surgery on her arm had left her unable to manage her normal six to seven hours' practice a day.
