Summary of Nancy Collamer's Second-Act Careers

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#1 There are more than fifty different career and business ideas for you to explore in part one. However, you are not limited to these choices. Each of these careers can be modified and combined into hundreds of different ways that meet your unique interests, goals, and income needs.

#2 If you have valuable information, expertise, and life lessons that you want to share with the world, you can make money from them. You can do this by consulting, teaching, speaking, and performing.

#3 Consultants advise companies, organizations, and entrepreneurs on a variety of issues, including management issues, industry-specific issues, business processes, business development, and business advisory and forecasting services.

#4 To become a successful part-time consultant, you must first find a niche that you are passionate about and can offer expertise in. You can do this by asking other people in your field for advice, investigating consulting workshops and programs offered through your local community colleges, and checking with your professional association about their training offerings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669399995

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

There are more than fifty different career and business ideas for you to explore in part one. However, you are not limited to these choices. Each of these careers can be modified and combined into hundreds of different ways that meet your unique interests, goals, and income needs.

#2

If you have valuable information, expertise, and life lessons that you want to share with the world, you can make money from them. You can do this by consulting, teaching, speaking, and performing.

#3

Consultants advise companies, organizations, and entrepreneurs on a variety of issues, including management issues, industry-specific issues, business processes, business development, and business advisory and forecasting services.

#4

To become a successful part-time consultant, you must first find a niche that you are passionate about and can offer expertise in. You can do this by asking other people in your field for advice, investigating consulting workshops and programs offered through your local community colleges, and checking with your professional association about their training offerings.

#5

Coaching is a new profession, and as such, the standards for licensing and credentialing are still being developed. However, it has become extremely popular, and there are hundreds of training programs for aspiring coaches.

#6

The International Coaching Federation is the world’s leading coaching organization. It provides credentialing, certification programs, conferences, and research for the coaching profession.

#7

There are different levels of risk associated with different types of businesses. The level of risk you are willing to assume will affect the level of comfort and confidence you are able to bring to your business.

#8

If you’re a natural teacher, you may want to consider teaching others. There are a variety of options available, from adjunct professors to online instructors to corporate trainers.

#9

There are many ways to generate income as a trainer, from online trainer to school owner-director to one-to-one tutor. The demand for tutors is always strong, and people will gladly pay for personalized instruction in any number of interest areas.

#10

Teaching others what you know can be an extremely lucrative business. The demand for people who can teach the business of the business is growing, as more