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"How Changing Careers Might Make You Happy\nA Field Guide to Job-Hoppers\nThe New Corporate Dropouts: How to spot a remade man from a mile away.\n\n  1) The Start-Up Schemer\n\n Previous occupation\n\n Poet\n\n Epiphany\n\n Having his last book, Ineffable Aluminum Joy Demon, rejected by the University of Saskatchewan Press\n\n Current whereabouts\n\n Sand Hill Road, raising venture capital for a chain of organic whole-grain-pancake houses\n\n Style sense\n\n Bluetooth headgear, black slacks, leather briefcase. Dog-eared copy of the boardroom bible Good to Great conveys familiarity with phrases like \"skill set\" and \"B2B.\"\n\n Hardest part of new gig\n\n Trying to hide flop sweat in pitch meetings\n\n  Potentially life-ruining temptation to steer clear of\n\n Putting \"poet\" on r\u00E9sum\u00E9\n2) The Midlife Monk\n\n Previous occupation Litigator\n\n Epiphany\n\n Winning a billion-dollar case in favor of a Fortune 500 polluter\n\n  Current whereabouts\n\n Meditating at a Buddhist monastery in Nepal\n\n  Style sense\n\n Saffron robe, shaved head, musky-smelling sandals, prayer beads, and Cartier watch\n\n  Hardest part of new gig\n\n \"The Buddha says a man must give up all attachments\u2014but I can keep the watch, right?\"\n\n Potentially life-ruining temptation to steer clear of\n\n Hot nuns\n3) The Cool Kids' Troubadour\n\n Previous occupation\n\n Grizzled indie rocker\n\n Epiphany\n\n Cashing a $12 royalty check\n\n Current whereabouts\n\n On the Disney Channel, quacking like a duck\n\n Style sense\n\n Lots of green and orange and pink, topped off by explosively vertical bedhead and a euphoric grin.\n\n Hardest part of new gig\n\n Grinning. Constantly.\n\n Potentially life-ruining temptation to steer clear of Hot moms\n4) The Old Man on Campus\n\n Previous occupation\n\n High-school math teacher\n\n Epiphany\n\n Learning that one of his students earned more than he did\n\n Current whereabouts\n\n The M.B.A. program of a university near you\n\n  Style sense\n\n \"Of course I know who the Strokes are!\"\n\n Hardest part of new gig\n\n The math\n\n Potentially life-ruining temptation to steer clear of\n\n hot sophomores\n5) The Gentleman Farmer\n\n Previous occupation\n\n Wall Street broker\n\n Epiphany\n\n Realizing Alan Greenspan was talking gibberish\n\n Current whereabouts\n\n On a 40-acre spread in Vermont, milking goats and making a cheese served by Thomas Keller\n\n Style sense\n\n Patagonia meets Project Runway. Spotless apron and unscuffed boots suggest someone else is paid to shovel manure.\n\n Hardest part of new gig\n\n Greenspan was more interesting than the goats.\n\n Potentially life-ruining temptation to steer clear of\n\n hot sheep\nO, Pioneers: The most successful late bloomers of all time\u2014from Tom Clancy to Colonel Sanders.\n\n Ricky Gervais. The comedian and actor went from having a desk job at a radio station in London to selling his idea for The Office to the BBC and becoming a worldwide celebrity.\nColonel Sanders. At the age of almost 70, the gas station owner began selling his pressure cooking techniques to restaurants, which became Colonel Sanders franchises, aka, KFC.\nJimmy Carter. Carter was a peanut farmer, but his interest in local community affairs in Georgia eventually led to him becoming the 39th elected president.\nArnold Schwarzenegger. He's had three careers: Body builder, actor, and most recently, being elected to be the 38th governor of California in 2003.\nTom Clancy. The author was a 37-year-old insurance broker when he penned his first novel, \"The Hunt for Red October.\"\nTom Arnold. Tom Arnold was an overweight TV writer for the sitcom Roseanne, whom he married. After their divorce, he became a high-profile actor in his own right.\nJackie Mason. He followed in the family footsteps and became a rabbi in the Lower East Side of New York. At the age of 28, he decided to quit and try his hand at stand-up comedy.\nJohn Walsh. John Walsh owned a hotel management company in Florida, but after his 6-year-old son was abducted, he created the Missing Children Act of 1982, and later became the host of Fox's Americas Most Wanted.\nGeorge Foreman. The former heavyweight champ became spokesman for the George Forman grill in the 90s, making more money than he ever did boxing. At the height of the grill's success, he was pulling in 4.5 million a month.\nTim Allen. The comedian was a deadbeat drug dealer from Michigan, spending three years in jail before doing a stand-up comedy routine on a dare, and eventually becoming one of Hollywood's top entertainers.\nPaul Gauguin. Gauguin was a happily married stockbroker when, at 35, his hobby of painting on weekends led to being accepted in a prestigious art show. He soon left his wife and family to become a full time bohemian painter.\nTed Nugent. The Nuge was famous for being the hard rocking guitarist for the Damn Yankees, but now he's better known for being a pro-hunting advocate and sitting on the board of D.A.R.E. and the NRA.\nCharlton Heston. The award winning film actor became active in gun rights as he grew older, and became the spokesman for the NRA in 1998."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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