SECOND ACTS  “How many professionals are staging mid-career reinventions to ride out an unforgiving economy,” by Laurent Belsie

Job Shifters:

“It is the sober story line of the Great Recession and its aftermath: The worst economic downturn in nearly 80 years throws 15.4 million Americans out of work at its peak.  Many remain jobless two years later.

But there is another side of the story.  Out of turmoil can come career reinvention – sometimes fulfillment.  By necessity or by choice, more workers now seek new ways to fit in.  Laurent Belsie, the Monitor’s business editor and a longtime economy writer, heads up a report that focuses on six people who found their way.”  The Editors

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• THE ARAB UPRISINGS: WHAT LEGACY?
• MEGA-MONEY AND ELECTION 2012
• THE SUPER BOWL’S TALE OF TWO COACHES

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