FEELING AT HOME CARING FOR THE HOMELESS
A veteran of corporate America finds her skills are right for a new task When Anne Nolan first walked down the darkened steps into a homeless shelter, she started to…
HOW TO FINANCE A MIDCAREER MOVE
Read Published Article Is it finally time for a change? You’ve spent more than 20 years in one field—say, banking, law, or sales. You’ve dutifully built up equity in your…
5 STEPS TO STARTING A SECOND CAREER
Read Published Article Who doesn’t fantasize about a second career? Especially if you’ve worked in the same field for 20 or 25 years, been there and done that, accomplished most…
BOTTLING A HEALTHY IDEA
A former Microsoft exec’s start-up finances cancer research Read Published Article Running (and finishing) a 5K race wasn’t always on Trish May’s to-do list. Neither was founding and running a…
WHERE WORK REALLY IS A ZOO
Read Published Article Howard Baskin admits that a few homeless cats have won his heart over the years, but saving abandoned and abused lions, lynxes, and leopards was by no…
FROM HIGH TECH TO HIGH MINDED
Read Published Article Ah, family memories—1960s antiwar rallies in Berkeley and trailing farmworker activist César Chávez as an 11-year-old, with his socially progressive parents. Add the weekly trip to Peet’s…
Barking up the Right Tree
A botanist and a pediatrician follow their noses to chocolate Read Published Article As a kid, Deborah Langsam used to stare in the windows of the bakeries in Brooklyn, N.Y.,…
FROM ONE GRILLING TO ANOTHER
Read Published Article Alejandro Benes vividly remembers standing in front of the White House on Oct. 20, 1973, with a group of friends, after President Richard Nixon had ordered the…
ANOTHER KIND OF REWARD
Ex-consultant now helps orphans with AIDS Read Published Article Most people wouldn’t walk away from a high-paying job. But Kim Ogden did. “It was time,” she says with a gentle…
LEARNING LIFE’S LESSONS
Ex-mortgage banker Cliff Stevenson is back in the classroom Read Published Article It was the day of his ex-business partner’s funeral, and Cliff Stevenson found a flier stuck in his…
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