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Toxicologist-Turned-Winemaker: Tapping Existing Skills When Changing Your Career

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Posted by Libraries, April 28, 2008
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Toxicologist-Turned-Winemaker: Tapping Existing Skills When Changing Your Career By Amy Palanijan, Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition), Apr 8, 2008.

For those Simmons associates who are considering a career change, here are some anecdotes and pieces of advice for transforming the work you do. This article starts off with Rachel Thebault who went from investment banker to professional baker/business owner and closes with Elizabeth Vianna, a toxicologist-turned-winemaker. Along the way we hear from Pamela Mitchell, founder and chief executive of the Reinvention Institute, a coaching and consulting firm in Miami.

The experiences of successful career changers seem to match the professional career-changing advice given in this article. That is: use your current career to help boot-strap you into the next one. In other words, try to find some relevant components in the work you do today that will further your goals regarding entrance into a new industry. Focus on your social ties, and any skills at hand that might matter in making your next endeavor a successful one. Your existing career is also valuable because it allows you to continue drawing in a salary while making your transition.

For details on how to utilize your current resources, and more ideas, inspiration, and career-change advice, read this Wall Street Journal article.

-Julie Waddick