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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

“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
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"A must-read for anyone-at any age-curious about a career change. A perfect blend of inspirational, readable stories and logistical, practical advice," Beth Kobliner,
Author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties.
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"Hannon's engaging profiles reflect the passion of those who have chosen to take a different path with their lives while her practical, how-to advice will make the journey smoother for others who are still summoning up the courage to take that leap of faith."
Tim Smart, Executive Editor, U.S. News & World Report

"Kerry Hannon provides an essential roadmap and guidebook, full of great ideas."
Jim Connor, Assistant Managing Editor, CNBC Business News

"Hannon's practical guide is a must-read for anyone in a career transition and life reinvention."
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From High Finance to Fagioli

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By Kerry Hannon
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The following is an excerpt from What's Next? Follow Your Passions and Find Your Dream Job by Kerry Hannon

Tim and Colleen Sheerer

It’s a sunny Sunday in September, and Tim Sheerer is not on the golf course with his fifteen-year-old son, Johnny, playing in the annual father-son tournament. Instead, he’s spending the day preparing meals for roughly 350 customers at la Cappella, an Italian bistro, in a Pittsburgh suburb. That’s the restaurant he owns and operates with his wife, Colleen. The cook has called in sick.

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Many professionals find peace after major career changes

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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

By Joyce Gannon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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In the late 1990s, Kerry Hannon, a Washington, D.C.-based personal finance reporter and editor, got a call from a photographer friend who needed a writer to help with a book about an American Indian trading post.

For Ms. Hannon, 49, a Fox Chapel native who has spent most of her career covering business and consumer news for national publications, including USA Today, Forbes and U.S. News & World Report, the experience of profiling three female weavers at a Navajo reservation located at the Four Corners -- the juncture of Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico -- was a sort of epiphany.

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What makes for a successful midlife career transition?

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Posted on 19 May 2010 by Mark Miller

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Second verse - not the same as the first.

Journalist Kerry Hannon remixed that old pop hit in the column she wrote for U.S. News and World Report, “Second Acts.” A specialist in careers, retirement and personal finance, Hannon has traveled the country interviewing people who’ve made successful career transitions at midlife–often into very colorful and happy new lives.

Now, Hannon has crafted her research on career transition into an important new book, What’s Next: Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job (Chronicle Books, 2010). It’s an indispensable guide to anyone hoping to pull off a midlife reinvention, and an excellent companion to another key book on this subject, Marc Freedman’s, Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life (Public Affairs, 2008).

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Couple's Sweet Tooth Yields Sweet Success

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Featured on SecondAct.com: Read Book excerpt: Botanist and pediatrician indulge their passion for chocolate to create good works enterprises.

By Kerry Hannon

photo: courtesy Barking Dog Chocolatiers

Deborah Langsam and Joal Fischer prep for an appearance on the Food Network.

As a kid, Deborah Langsam used to stare in the windows of the bakeries in Brooklyn, New York, and dream of what delicacy she would buy if she had all the money in the world.

As co-owner of Barking Dog Chocolatiers, an artisanal chocolate company in Charlotte, North Carolina, Langsam, a former associate professor of biology, no longer has to fantasize about indulging her sweet tooth. With husband, Joal Fischer, a retired developmental pediatrician, she stirs up vats of silky chocolate and handcrafts it into mouth-watering truffles, barks, ganaches, and pastries in a state-of-the-art home kitchen.

Langsam, a botanist, retired after twenty-two years at the University of North Ca

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After a career as a high-powered Washington D.C. attorney, city slicker Sam Fox reinvented himself

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Sam Fox's reinvention story was first featured in Kerry Hannon's book What's Next? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job. See AARP's interview with Hannon about some of the other career transitions featured in her book and how you can begin planning your own reinvention.

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Kerry Hannon: Help for Re-inventors and Re-careerers

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by: Mike Cuthbert | from: AARP Radio | May 18, 2010

Hear the interview: http://www.aarp.org/personal-growth/transitions/info-05-2010/kerry_hannon.html

Boomers re-inventing themselves at mid-life is such a hot topic these days, it’s generated shelf-loads of books. One of the best in this genre is by journalist and financial advisor Kerry Hannon – who offers specific and practical advice as well as inspiring stories to help anyone thinking about changing careers. She joins host Mike Cuthbert to share some of the advise and expertise outlined in her book: What’s Next? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job.

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Book Review: Kerry Hannon: Find Your Dream Job

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Posted 05/17/2010 - 12:32pm by Terry Nagel Read Published Article as appears on Encore.org Kerry Hannon has made a career out of tracking other people’s midlife career changes. In her new book, What’s Next: Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job, she tells the stories of 16 individuals who have made dramatic life changes, including several who have found encore careers.
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Five Key Things to Contemplate Before Making a Major Career Change

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By Kerry Hannon
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The following is an excerpt from What's Next? Follow Your Passions and Find Your Dream Job

Marketing 101. How good are you at selling yourself? Really? This is a key ingredient for those of you embarking on an entrepreneurial second act. This is a genuine blind spot that wannabe second actors can possess.

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GETTING AHEAD: Passion Meets Pragmatism: Kerry Hannon, 'What's Next: Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job'

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A POLICE OFFICER turned music agent. A Navy captain who became a circus manager. A botanist who traded plants for making chocolate. Those are a few stories of major career changes from the baby boomers and retirees Kerry Hannon interviewed for her new book, "What's Next: Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job" ($23, Chronicle Books). Their tales from the trenches are a rich source of advice and tips for anyone contemplating a serious job switch. We spoke with Hannon, a personal finance contributing editor and retirement correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, about how to prepare for and what to expect from an extreme career makeover.

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