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Topic: My Brilliant Second Career

(Salon/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-59320p1.html'>Andy Piatt</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

A psychic predicted my career

Ibrahim Madha
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-154447p1.html'>Alena Ozerova</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The lost girls I wanted to save

Emily Fitchpatrick
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-52013p1.html>Edyta Pawlowska</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

We never thought we'd be grocers

Katie McCaskey
A photo of the author with her dog, Max. (Alison Turner)

I swapped the corporate world for a trailer

Alison Turner
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-87611p1.html'>Maisei Raman</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

How a Viagra sales rep learned to sell herself

Amy McVay Abbott
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-286606p1.html'>Volodymyr Krasyuk</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

How I fished myself out of crushing debt

Nick Rahaim
(Image courtesy of the author)

The female trucker you never saw coming

Tiffany Brubeck
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This is how you toast misfortune

David Beaudette