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Migod, Jamie, you sure know how to rev up the ol' nostalgia!
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| #5 (permalink) Mon Jul 14, 2008 13:41 pm Career change |
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Going from drug dealer to rapper isn't really what you'd call a career change. |
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| #6 (permalink) Mon Jul 14, 2008 13:54 pm Career change |
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| 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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| #7 (permalink) Mon Jul 14, 2008 14:00 pm Career change |
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| How about from weatherman to totalitarian dictator? Enough of a career change for you, J? But who was it? |
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| #8 (permalink) Mon Jul 14, 2008 14:01 pm Career change |
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| Or how about from terrorist bomber to university professor and Obama supporter? |
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| #9 (permalink) Mon Jul 14, 2008 14:15 pm Career change |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| Or how about from terrorist bomber to university professor and Obama supporter? |
Yeah, that's good one. |
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| #10 (permalink) Mon Jul 14, 2008 14:23 pm Career change |
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| From shipyard worker to president? |
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| #11 (permalink) Wed Jul 16, 2008 22:28 pm Career change |
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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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| #12 (permalink) Wed Jul 16, 2008 22:31 pm Career change |
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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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Are there people who get so sick of that limelight/pressure/prestige and opt for lower-level occupations?  |
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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| #14 (permalink) Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:12 am Career change |
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| 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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| Sure there are, Tom. We all know the most famous example: |
Surely the most famous is Nixon.[/img] |
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