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What do I do now? A midlife career change may be just the challenge you need

THE OTHER NIGHT I HAD DINNER WITH MY FRIEND KIM, who in midlife is endeavoring to change her career. She has spent decades as a successful photographer, but she knows it’s time to do something different. What, however, is she qualified to do, besides photography? “I’m good at parties,” she told me with a shrug. “And parallel parking.” We refilled our wineglasses and laughed really hard as we dreamed up the various careers in which that particular combination might be

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