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Career change Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:23 am  Career change		  
Here you can see the first career of Dr. Paul Winchell, who invented the first artificial heart.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=71911143081775684

Here you can read about his life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Winchell

The man had quite a career change!
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Career change Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:12 pm  Career change		  
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Migod, Jamie, you sure know how to rev up the ol' nostalgia!
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Career change Mon Jul 14, 2008 14:30 pm  Career change		  
Curtis James Jackson III also had quite a career change, innit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent
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Career change Mon Jul 14, 2008 14:32 pm  Career change		  
Another "career" changer:

http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/ahitler.html
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Career change Mon Jul 14, 2008 14:41 pm  Career change		  
Molly wrote:
Curtis James Jackson III also had quite a career change, innit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent

Going from drug dealer to rapper isn't really what you'd call a career change.
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Career change Mon Jul 14, 2008 14:54 pm  Career change		  
Jamie (K) wrote:
Going from drug dealer to rapper isn't really what you'd call a career change.

I just did.
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Career change Mon Jul 14, 2008 15:00 pm  Career change		  
How about from weatherman to totalitarian dictator? Enough of a career change for you, J? But who was it?
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Career change Mon Jul 14, 2008 15:01 pm  Career change		  
Or how about from terrorist bomber to university professor and Obama supporter?
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Career change Mon Jul 14, 2008 15:15 pm  Career change		  
Jamie (K) wrote:
Or how about from terrorist bomber to university professor and Obama supporter?

Yeah, that's good one.
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Career change Mon Jul 14, 2008 15:23 pm  Career change		  
From shipyard worker to president?
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Career change Wed Jul 16, 2008 23:28 pm  Career change		  
These are all excellent examples of upward movement (well titular advancement anyway, in a couple of those cases), but I wonder about the cases where, for instance, someone became president of a company or a country and ended up -- not in jail or otherwise villified... plenty of known cases of that -- but decided to step down and become a farmer, janitor, pool maintenance technician, ditch-digger, etc.?

Are there people who get so sick of that limelight/pressure/prestige and opt for lower-level occupations?
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Career change Wed Jul 16, 2008 23:31 pm  Career change		  
like how about:

From Sales VP of a publicly traded company to lemonade-stand operator at the corner of Elm Street and Birch Road?
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Career change Thu Jul 17, 2008 0:07 am  Career change		  
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Are there people who get so sick of that limelight/pressure/prestige and opt for lower-level occupations? Wink

Yeah, of course. Some of them become ESL teachers.

I'm told that Kieślowski finally gave up fiim making and went back to being a shoemaker.
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Career change Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:12 am  Career change		  
prezbucky wrote:
Are there people who get so sick of that limelight/pressure/prestige and opt for lower-level occupations?

Sure there are, Tom. We all know the most famous example:
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Career change Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:51 am  Career change		  
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Sure there are, Tom. We all know the most famous example:

Surely the most famous is Nixon.[/img]
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