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Career Transitions for Love
From: Retail Fashion Designer/Salesperson to Holocaust Educator of School-Age Children and Teens
This story exemplifies the determination of a woman who survived Auschwitz at age 10. After coming to America and working for over 30 years in high-level fashion sales, she participated in survivor presentation projects at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. and Steven Spielberg's Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles, Calif. Inspired by the questions of school age children regarding whether or not the Holocaust had really happened, upon retirement she decided it was time to tell the story to youngsters, volunteering for and participating in the Northern California Holocaust Center's school linkage program.
Cost: repeatedly reliving terribly painful experiences.
Result: that the world will not forget.
Resources:
Shoah Visual History Foundation
Help Wanted: to provide video production for the Visual History Foundation
Information on the technology consulting work done by Arthur Andersen's Media and Entertainment Practice for the Spielberg Shoah practice.
From: Shopping Center manager To: Business Owner and Mayor, Small City
Understanding the financial and civic strategies to attract businesses into various neighborhoods were a few of the key research and relationship-building elements of the career transition achieved by this high energy, people-oriented, over-50 professional woman. By first volunteering as a board member for a large condominium association, and later participating in various city redevelopment projects, Madame City Council Representative and twice Mayor prepared for her career by developing good relationships with various constituencies, studying the issues, and developing a thick skin to cover level shoulders. Not above participating in weekly Saturday shoreline clean-ups and personally answering calls both major and minor.
Cost: Time to network, study the issues and the inner workings of city politics, be responsive, and run for elections.
Result: a solid career in a growth city and respect from her constituents.
Resources:
Emily's List for information on women candidates in major races at state and national levels.
 Careers for Fun and (Some) Money
Career Transitions into Technology for Money
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