Archive for the 'career ideas' Category
May 1st, 2008
I’m hooked on the new PBS mini-series, Carrier, featuring portraits of men and women on board the USS Nimitz, an aircraft carrier on a Middle East cruise.
Although I’m hooked, I find the series painful to watch. While some sailors clearly love their jobs, and we often see the crew members having fun, you can tell […]
July 27th, 2007
CathyCategory: career ideas, new careers
Ezine subscriber Ellen Zucker (www.facesandfortunes.com) sent me this story about fifty-something career changers who left their cubicles for the open road:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19875409/site/newsweek/
“Becoming a truck driver? You must be kidding.” I can just see my readers shaking their heads in disbelief.
Well, maybe not. A few years ago I interviewed a truck driver who left his fifth […]