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Follow Your Passions
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Introduction
A New York investment banker becomes a small-town chef. A college professor becomes a chocolatier. An entrenched corporate exec accepts an early-retirement package and converts to the ministry.
Who doesn’t fantasize about a second career?
Perhaps you’ve worked in the same field for twenty-some-odd years and have run out of fresh challenges. Maybe you feel you have talents that are going to waste. Or there’s something you’ve always wanted to do that’s calling louder and louder. Or, like millions of others, you’re simply worn down by the corporate routine. There must be something out there that’s more meaningful and more rewarding, right? |
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For nearly four years, Kerry has been following the lives of career switchers in her U.S. News & World Report column, Second Acts. If you would like to read some of her articles, click here. For review copies, or if you want Kerry to talk to your audience about how they can follow their own passion, don’t hesitate to contact publicist Christina Loff at
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As a child, Belinda Stubblefield loved playing the banker in Monopoly. She resold the gum her mother bought for her to classmates for a nickel a piece. Then she stashed the cash in her "rainy day" piggy bank, which was shaped like a little girl with an umbrella over her head. "I made a good profit," Stubblefield says with a laugh.  It's little wonder that today Stubblefield, 46, is satisfying her entrepreneurial drive after decades of working for large corporations. Three years ago, Stubblefield left the relative safety of her job at Delta Air Lines with a generous buyout package in hand. Six months later, she opened a wine shop. "I wanted to be an entrepreneur for a long time," she says. "My biggest question was what I wanted to do." |
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"A fascinating and extremely helpful book for anyone planning to switch careers-from one of the nation's leading experts on the subject."
Richard Eisenberg, CBS MoneyWatch.com  "Kerry Hannon is a top-rate personal finance journalist filled with smart practical advice."
Diane Harris, Executive Editor, Money magazine “More and more people have realized the importance of following their passions. But if you can’t make money at it, it’s your hobby. Follow Hannon’s road-map to make sure you’re on the way to a passionate—and prosperous—career.” Jean Chatzky, Best-selling Author of The Difference and Pay it Down
"A must-read for anyone-at any age-curious about a career change. A perfect blend of inspirational, readable stories and logistical, practical advice, What's Next? walks you though the nuts and bolts of switching careers so you can follow your passion the smart way and set yourself up for a long-term success. ) if I didn't love my career so much, this book would be my bible!)" Beth Kobliner, Author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties. |
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by Marc Freedman, Founder and CEO of CIVIC VENTURES |  | “By addressing the genuine challenges of what continues to be, for many, a do-it-yourself transition, this book proves that the midlife shift to new fulfillment is not only possible, but deeply desirable. It offers a set of compelling, credible role models, and distills their insights and experiences into a reliable roadmap for successfully planning this transition. What’s more, as What’s Next? shows us, these uplifting encore opportunities are hardly exclusive to former CEOs and Commanders-in-Chief. They are within reach for anyone." |
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Buy this book on Amazon.com To be a standout in the pack of personal finance books on the market today is no easy task. Jean Chatzky, author of Money 911: Your Most Pressing Money Questions Answered, Your Money Emergencies Solved, knows that well. Several of them are her own, including Pay it Down!, Make Money, Not Excuses and The Difference. Her solution: an uber-personal finance guide, one that sweeps the landscape from dealing with debt to paying for college to saving for retirement. Chatzky's new offering is a comprehensive compilation of SOS cries posed by viewers of her corresponding "Money 911" series on NBC's Today, where she is financial editor. There's advice here for practically every challenge you might face — even questions to ask a potential nanny. And that's quite a feat. |
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by Kerry Hannon for CBSMoneyWatch.com 
Can an appliance rebate program do for dishwashers what the 2009 version did for the Ford Focus? In shopping malls and hardware stores across the land, the government is rolling out “Cash for Clunker Appliances,” an attempt to get you to spend madly on energy-efficient white goods, thereby saving both the economy and the environment. The federal Energy Star rebate program will hand out $50 to $250 apiece for certain types of appliances if you replace old energy gobblers with more efficient models. So if you’ve put off replacing your rattling washing machine, you may want to cash in, assuming you can. (More on that in a moment.) Under the federal program, the rebates can go to buyers of new central air conditioners, room air conditioners, heat pumps, boilers, furnaces, washers, dishwashers, freezers, refrigerators, and water heaters with the Energy Star seal. (That’s the somewhat discredited label noting that a product meets federal energy efficiency guidelines. Some energy-use figures on the labels don’t reflect typical usage or haven’t been independently verified.) |
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