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Inside Today's Issue
Featured Article
Turning a Love of Nature Into a Livelihood
Featured Resource
Making Dreams Happen
Work At What You Love Workshop Update
Guest Article
Do Men and Women Do
Mid-Life Crisis Differently?
Upcoming Workshops & Teleclasses
Resources for A Change
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You have to
leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
~ Alan Alda |
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Turning a Love of Nature Into a Livelihood
By Valerie Young
Pinau Merlin is living proof that any passion can be turned
into a source of income. Merlin has one of the more, well, unusual interests…
she studies holes. According to a recent article in National Wildlife magazine,
the naturalist turned author spent months “trying to figure out exactly which
fly, bee, beetle, or rodent made which holes, and how the animal uses
subterranean habitat to live in the desert’s brutal environment.”
Figuring there must be others out there who share her sense
of curiosity, Merlin took what she’d learned and turned it into a book. A
Field to Desert Holes was one of the top four selling books on Arizona at
Amazon.com and a book signing at a Tucson Barnes & Noble was standing room only.
Her guide is now in its fourth printing. I was intrigued by Pinau and her
passion, so I decided to do a little digging.
In an earlier interview for Smithsonian
magazine, Merlin explained her interest in holes this way.
“The more
you know about what you see, the more you come to appreciate the intricacies of
life, and the fantastic ways that animals have evolved to live in specific
environments,”
Merlin says. “And
looking at holes is a great way to get to know the neighbors. You see rabbit fur
by the kit fox hole, and it’s
like reading the morning paper. Who was out last night? What were they doing?”
This got me wondering about what it takes to
become a naturalist. Come to find out, anyone can be a naturalist. Although some
naturalists have scientific backgrounds in botany or environmental science, the
National Park Service defines a naturalist simply as a specialist who studies and/or teaches about
nature. Professional canoeist, kayaker, and writer, Tamia Nelson, defines a
naturalist simply as someone who takes an interest in the natural world.
“Imagine,” she says, “telling a roomful of
casual acquaintances that you've decided to become a naturalist. They'd probably
laugh. Ours is a world of specialists, after all. Anyone who's curious about the
natural world is expected to have a narrow focus of interest – to concern
herself only with comets, say, or birds, or mushrooms. And ours is also a world
of professionals. If we're not being paid to do something, it's ‘just a hobby,’
on a par with watching daytime television or collecting postcards.”
Nelson goes on to cite numerous famous
nineteenth century “amateur” naturalists. People like Charles Darwin, career
civil servant turned naturalist Alexander von Humboldt who put the put the
Orinoco, Rio Negro, and the headwaters of the Amazon on the map, Henry David
Thoreau (a surveyor by profession), and children’s book writer Ernest Thompson
Seton. “Except for Humboldt, who worked for a time as a mining engineer,” says
Nelson, “none was ever a professional scientist. Yet each left his mark on
biology, geology, and anthropology.”
Not everything you love to do has to be a paying gig. If
you have a love of the whales and a flexible schedule consider signing on for
the Cabrillo Whale Watch Program in San Pedro, California (CabrilloWhaleWatch.com).
This comprehensive training runs Tuesday evenings starting October 2005 through
March 2006. After completing a three month training course and passing a final
exam, naturalists serve as volunteer guides on whale watching boats, give
lectures in classrooms prior to their fieldtrip, and give presentations in the
local community.
But what if you do want to get paid for your knowledge and
passion for nature? As a naturalist you can work for the park service, at nature
centers, and as trip guides. You can always go for some kind of college degree.
For example, degrees earned by the staff at Durango Nature Studies in Durango,
Colorado range from English to Biology to Environmental Biology (DurangoNatureStudies.com).
That’s where I learned about the Wolf Ridge Environmental
Learning Center in Finland, Minnesota (Wolf-Ridge.org).
If you love the idea of teaching kids, the center offers a Certificate in
Environmental Education with 18 credits toward a Masters of Education degree at
the
Center for Environmental Education at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Like the Wolf Ridge program, the
Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center also offers paid internships. This
private, non-profit, accredited school dedicated to “fostering awareness,
enhancing respect, and promoting personal responsibility for the natural world”
in Lanesboro, Minnesota is currently seeking interns for paid participants for
the Professional Naturalist Fellowship program. As one of 12 participants in the
fellowship, you’ll develop teaching, interpretive, and public relations
techniques, plus many other skills related to residential environmental
education. Learn more at
Eagle-Bluff.org
If you want to work in a
beautiful place, but not necessarily as a naturalist, there are a number of
sites that specialize in outdoor jobs.
CoolWorks.com can point you toward over 75,000 seasonal job or careers
including summer jobs in Yellowstone, Yosemite, or another national parks, jobs
as camp counselors, and a range of opportunities at ski resorts, ranches, theme
parks, tour companies and more.
At
ColoradoGuide.com you can search under categories like executive,
administrative, computer/technical support, conservation, travel/hospitality and
more. For example when I clicked on the category “Guide Services,” I discovered
a company in Snow Mass, Colorado with an opening for a fly fishing guide/right
hand man or woman. Qualifications include knowledge of entomology, great people
skills, die hard fly fisher.
If, like Pinau Merlin, you’re a nature lover who also
enjoys writing, why not build on Merlin’s success by writing about holes in
Maine, Hawaii, Kansas, Alaska, England, Spain, Nigeria, Pakistan or wherever you
live or visit? But what if you’d love to write a book but nature just isn’t your
thing. If Merlin’s success has taught us anything, it’s that if there’s a market
for a book on animal holes in Arizona then there’s simply no end to the
possibilities. Just ask Kendall Crolius. Crolius is the author of a wonderfully
off-the-beaten path how to book called Knitting With Dog Hair: Better a Sweater
from a Dog You Know and Love Than From a Sheep You’ll Never Meet.
About the Author
Off the beaten path career
counselor, Valerie Young, abandoned her corporate cubicle to become the Dreamer
in Residence at
ChangingCourse.com, offering free resources
to help you discover your life mission and live it. An expert on the Imposter
Syndrome, she's presented her How to Feel as Bright and Capable as Everyone
Seems to Think You Are program to over 30,000 people.
Find more articles written by
Valerie at
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Happiness
is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember
leaving open. ~ Rose Lane |
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A ship in
harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. ~ William
Shedd |
Work At What You Love Workshop Updates
Special Add-On Workshop:
Turn Your Everyday Snap Shots into Cash
I have some breaking news about this August’s Work
at What You Love workshop. At the eleventh hour, I was able to arrange
for Lori Appling, director of the American Writers and Artists
Institute’s Travel Writers Program and professional photographer and
digital photography instructor Rich Wagner, (Rich will also be on the
Friday night panel) to run a special add-on fast-track version of their
popular The Ultimate Travel Photographer’s Workshop.
The optional add-on workshop is an abbreviated
version of what is normally a 3+ day program. Their sell-out program in
Paris in May cost $1397. But you can attend this 1+ day session for only
$149 – and receive the first installment of the self-study course,
Turn Your
Pictures into Cash: A Comprehensive Course in Taking and Selling Amazing
Photographs (a $79 value).
To learn more about the photography course scroll
down to the Upcoming Workshops & Teleclasses section of the newsletter
or visit
ChangingCourse.com/courses.htm
Learn From People Who Have Done It
Ask any of our past workshop participants, and
they’ll tell you that one of the most inspiring and informative
segments of the program is the panel of local entrepreneurs. In this
week’s Work at What You Love Update, I’d like to introduce you to three
more inspiring entrepreneurs who will be on hand to share how they
changed course. (If you missed the business owner profiled in the last
update go to the newsletter archives at
ChangingCourseArchives.com/issue119.html)
Retirement Community Developers Nancy and Heather Whitley
Every one has a dream. For some, its being a writer
or a jewelry maker or a fitness trainer or running a doggie day care
center. Then there are people who have what I call a “Big Dream.” Two
women with a Big Dream are Nancy and Heather Whitley of Northampton,
Massachusetts.
This enterprising couple is well on
their way to establishing a retirement community both in Massachusetts
and in Costa Rica. Nothing new about a retirement community, right? But
what Nancy and Heather did was take an established business and niche
market it to a specific demographic group. (You’ll learn more about the
power of niche marketing at the workshop). The niche Nancy and Heather
are going after is the growing population of gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender baby boomers who are thinking ahead to retirement. They
haven’t yet launched their formal website but you can take a look at
their one pager at
ParadiseCityVillage.com
Self-employment is
nothing new to Nancy and Heather. For the last seven years, Nancy has
owned her own home health care service and Heather took what she learned
in her various corporate jobs to establish herself as a small business
consultant. What I find remarkable about is Nancy and Heather is that
they aren’t rich. And yet these average income women are totally
undaunted at the prospect of putting together a projected $23 million
dollars to fund the project. While the project is still in the
pre-construction phase, their revenue goals are solidly on track.
If you have a Big Dream
but can’t imagine thinking on this kind of grand scale, be prepared to
take good notes because Nancy and Heather are going to share exactly how
they got other people to invest in their dreams… and how you can too!
Karen Orfitelli,
Children’s Book Writing Instructor
You never know when
the decision to finally change course will hit. The seeds of Karen
Orfitelli’s writing life started as an unspoken aspiration after she
graduated from college. But, like many would-be writers, life was filled
with rearing children, teaching, and graduate school. The dream of
becoming a writer seemed like a dim and distant memory.
Then, one blistering
hot August day in 1991, everything changed. Karen had just returned
from Cape Cod and, as she was standing in the laundry room knee deep in
sand-covered towels, she had an urgent sense that it was time to act on
her dream of becoming a writer. Moments later, she stepped out of the
laundry room back into a life-changed person.
Karen made good on her decision. She went on to
have more than 300 articles published and is a former editor for
McGraw-Hill Publishers. Karen never lost her love of children, a love
she satisfies in two ways. In addition to reviving her earlier career
as an English teacher, Karen is also a senior instructor for the
Institute of Children’s Literature based in West Redding, Connecticut.
From her home on Cape Cod, Karen provides one-to-one editorial feedback
and guidance to adult students enrolled in the Institute’s Writing for
Children and Teenagers course (visit
ChangingCourse.com/children.htm to read my full review of this course).
Karen will talk about
both how she launched her own successful freelance writing career as
well as the opportunities that exist for article and book writers in the
children and teen market and what it takes to succeed in this growing
field.
Karen Rhodes, Interactive Story Teller and Franchiser
Karen is getting to be a regular at these
workshops. I first met Karen at the Making Dreams Happen workshop
Barbara Sher, Barbara Winter and I did in Boulder, Colorado two summers
ago. Last May, she once again made it to the Dreams Can’t Wait seminar up
in Kennebunkport, Maine. Karen will be at this summer’s event as well,
but there’s one important difference. This year Karen is coming as a
success story!
During one of our Idea Parties in Boulder (you’ll
get to experience an Idea Party at the workshop this summer) Karen asked
the group for help on a specific idea. She’d been running a highly
successful business for some years. Now she wished she could find a way
to franchise it but didn’t know where to begin. The group barraged Karen
with ideas. Now, a mere two years later, she’s putting the finishing
touches on her “business in a box.” But I’m getting ahead of myself.
This mother of four and home schooler’s unique
foray into entrepreneurship began when she decided she wanted to somehow
turn her love of history and acting into a money-making venture. Equally
high on Karen’s list of priorities was to come up with a business where
she could also bring her children. But what?
Inspiration often comes from the simplest things. Karen liked to read
true life stories to her children about people she admired and wanted
them to emulate. She found herself thinking, “More people should know
these stories.” Then one day she took the kids to see the fictionalized
movie version Anastasia. The historically inaccuracy
of the film spurred her to design a program she called, “The True Story
of Anastasia.”
Karen began by putting the story in terms simple
enough for a six-year-old to understand. Then, knowing many mothers
didn’t know the real story either, she decided to include them in the
program too. But that wasn’t the only reason. Karen wisely understood
that if the mothers were involved with their children, she could do more
interesting and complicated things… like adding crafts, food, and even a
lesson in waltzing where mothers and daughters dress up for a miniature
“royal ball.”
In keeping with her original goal to somehow
involve her own children, she enlisted her three daughters
to work beside her in what would become
a fun and financially rewarding weekend and summer business. The
program was so successful that Karen designed more programs, including
one inspired by the movie Mulan and another based on the book Little
House on the Prairie.
All of which brings us back two years to that Idea Party in Boulder.
Between the validation, the inspiration, and the information she
received at the workshop, the on-going support of her Barbara Sher style Success Team (as an attendee you’ll also get the
benefit of being part of your own Success Team), and her own hard work
and determination, Karen’s Idea Party wish is now a reality.
Creating a turn-key business allows her to help
other women who share her passion for history or who have an undeveloped
theatrical side. Plus her particular “business in a box” provides a
great solution for other mothers who want to earn money but don’t want
to have to leave their kids with a babysitter to do it.
In addition to being a panelist, Karen will be
joining us for the entire workshop… so you’ll have plenty of time to
pick her brain. You don’t have to be a parent to benefit from hearing
about how Karen successfully developed and marketed her creative
business idea and the steps she took to create a franchise. Like all
successful ventures, Karen’s began with an inspired idea… and so will
yours.
Travel Updates
Accommodations
We
recently negotiated another special conference price at the Clarion
Hotel. This full service hotel is very close to the Best Western and
just a little over a mile from the conference site. Weekday rate is $89,
weekend rate is $135. For reservations call the Clarion at
(800) 582-2929 and ask for the Changing Course rate.
Renting a Car from the Amtrak Station
Outside of the airports, a lot of local car rental
companies have limited weekend hours which of course makes it difficult
to return your car after the seminar. I did some digging and found a
company called In & Out Car Rental (less than 2 miles from Amtrak)
that’s open Weekdays 6:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. and weekends from 7:00 a.m. to
7:00 p.m. They also said they should be able to pick you up at the
train station. Rentals run from $29.95-$34.95 and the first 100 miles
are free which is good unless you plan to do extra site seeing while in
the area (Northampton is about 21 miles from their location). If you do
take a cab there, they’re just over the bridge at 143 Park Ave, West
Springfield on the corner of Union Street at a Shell station. Call
(413) 737-8250 for reservations.
Private Forum Set Up for Workshop Participant to Connect
Lisa has set up a forum on the new Changing Course
Bulletin Board where workshop attendees can meet before the workshop to
introduce themselves and share hopes and dreams for the workshop.
There’s also a special section to connect around
travel arrangements. For example, if you’re arriving at the
Hartford-Springfield airport or the Amtrak station in Springfield around
the same time as others, you can save money by making a group
reservation for the Valley Transporter Shuttle. Staying at one of the
area hotels? Connect with others to car pool to the Hotel Northampton.
Visit it at
ChangingCourse.com/forum
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Things turn
out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
~ John Wooden |
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Visualize
this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint
and begin. ~ Robert Collier |
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Guest Article
Do Men and Women Do
Mid-Life Crisis Differently?
From Crisis to Opportunity Women Are Inventing
Themselves
By Susan
Reimer Torn
Some fifteen months ago, I sent
out a letter to 50 women in 7 different countries asking if they shared my
feeling that we were at a significant crossroads. Did they feel that one phase
of their adulthood was drawing to a close and that now was the time to envision
chapter two? The response was unequivocal and spiked with urgency-almost all the
women intuited a now or never opportunity to make choices that would
significantly influence the rest of their lives.
At about the
same time I conducted my survey, Sue Shellenbarger, the
World Street Journal’s Work &Family columnist was interviewing 50
different women about their experience of the “midlife crisis” (a term
heretofore mostly reserved for men in the throes of a second adolescence.) Sue
Shellenbarger sat up and took notice of the responses to her inquiry. In her own
words, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal
Online on April 1, the subject of women at mildlife “had touched a
hidden nerve.” Never in her 30 years as a journalist charting social trends had
she “experienced interviews as moving as these.”
In
Shellenbarger’s new book, “The Breaking
Point: How Female Midlife Crisis is Transforming Today’s Women” she
draws upon a recent study conducted by the MacArthur Foundation on “Midlife in
the United States” which reveals that “a startlingly high number” of women–
statistics point to 15 million –undergo a personal crisis in their late 40’s.
They described the crisis as a turbulent time “when old values and goals no
longer made sense to them.”
The first
stage is characterized by “inner turmoil, a sense of frustration and
disappointment.” This dip in well being is explained by the statistical
evidence that before the age of 50 only a small minority of women felt they had
fulfilled their dreams. In fact a majority of those queried described the ages
of 35 to 49 as “a lowest ebb of fulfillment in their entire adult lives.”
Women’s
midlife transition is attaining the status of a social phenomena, marking our
times much as the boomers’ “ Generation Gap” and “Sexual Revolution” defined
the 60’s and 70’s. I see it as a neo-feminist declaration of a woman’s right to
creative self-determination at any age. Shellenbarger is convinced that women’s
midlife transitions will send “visible ripples into society” and if you initiate
the conversation at your next dinner party, you will surely remark that the
ripple effect is well underway.
Responses to
midlife turmoil reveal important gender differences. The study shows that women
experience a deeper crisis, more radical changes
and more positive long-term results than do men. For most women,
after the age of fifty, there is a remarkable turn around: Frustration is
alleviated, new territory is broached, risks are taken, self defeating patterns
are broken, all of this resulting in reports of “dramatic rebound” and “powerful
renewal.” Wherein lies the difference between the genders? While men in midlife
crisis often resort to exploits and acquisitions (i.e. sports cars and trophy
wives) women tend to withdraw into a chrysalis of introspection.
What
transforms crisis at midlife into a regenerative opportunity? When Shellenbarger
reports the widespread renewal among women, she emphasizes that women are
“driven by some new insight into themselves.” She also highlights women’s
willingness to explore issues with friends and their readiness to “openly seek
solutions” such as coaching and support groups.
Whether you
are a man or woman approaching or immersed in mid-life the opportunity for
renewal abounds. The key is to use this time wisely to grow, to risk, to renew.
About the Author
Susan
Reimer Torn is a recognized expert on the compelling needs of midlife women
and founder of the Women Inventing Themselves (WIT) network. Her unique
coaching program focuses on upgrading social and professional visibility.
Susan's eye-opening workshops have been well received at Morgan Stanley, N.Y.U., the 92nd St Y and a variety of women's organizations. This
article is excerpted from Susan’s Keep Your WITs e-newsletter. To download a
PDF of the full e-review go to
VisibilityProject.com/witnews-spring05.pdf Learn more about Susan’s exciting, in depth approach to self development at
VisibilityProject.com
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Success
comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are
capable of becoming. ~ John Wooden |
Upcoming Workshops & Teleclasses
This Summer, Discover How to Replace
Your Job With Work You Really Love…
and Gain the Freedom, Flexibility, and Quality of Life You Deserve
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Find out how you can escape the J-O-B box… and uncover a whole new world
of possibilities.
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Tap your wildest dreams... and create a step-by-step plan to make them
happen right now...
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Discover the powerful secret to turning almost
anything into an alternative
to a job...
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Highly successful entrepreneurs do it instinctively. Now you can, too.
Learn powerful, proven techniques for transforming ideas into bankable
income.
Work at What You Love:
The
Life-Changing Workshop for
People Who Want to Quit Their Jobs and Get a Life
August 19-20, 2005
Northampton,
Massachusetts
ChangingCourse.com/workshop.htm
Can You Take a Simple Picture?
If yes, you could make $200-$2,000 a week taking snap shots in your own
backyard… on your family vacations… or anywhere in the world you care to travel.
You don't need fancy equipment. And you don't need to know
a thing about photography to get started.
This August 20th-21st you'll
learn first-hand just how
easy it is to turn your snapshots into cash, and enjoy the freedom,
independence, and travel that freelance photography delivers. All while you
explore one of New England’s most enchanting cities.
Rich Wagner professional photographer, digital photography
instructor, and frame shop owner (and a panelist at this summer’s Work at What
You Love workshop) and Lori Appling, Director of the American Writers and
Artists Institute’s Travel Writer program will be your instructors at this “fast
track” condensed version of their popular 3+ day course
The Ultimate Travel Photographer's Workshop.
Saturday August 20th from 5:00pm-7:30pm
Sunday, August 21st from 8:00am-5:00pm
Northampton,
Massachusetts
ChangingCourse.com/courses.htm
(*Note: You do NOT need to attend Work at What You Love to register for this
special photography course.)
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The View From
the Other Side
“…you can't connect the dots
looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to
trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust
in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has
never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
~ Steve Jobs
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Resources for a Change
Getting Your Articles Out on the Web
One of the best ways to establish yourself as an expert
amongst a large number of potential clients and customers – and possibly
attract interest from the press looking for experts to interview – is to get
your articles out on the internet.
There are a number of article submission sites that
will distribute your articles for you. A few are free, others charge a
yearly or per article fee. The one I’ve had success with is Article
Announcer
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce which also happens to be
free. Some other sites that take submissions include:
NetterWeb.com
EzineArticles.com
Amazines.com
GoArticles.com
MakingProfit.com
IdeaMarketers.com
ListADay.com
ChooseToProsper.com
Creative Education and Inspiration
Creative Career Schools.com offers a wealth of information for people
interested I careers like graphic design, fashion design, museum curator,
and other art related careers. Features a directory of art and design
schools and colleges, articles on how to work as freelance artist, tapping
your creativity and more, and links to sites to help you launch your
successful art career
That’s where I learned about a wonderful non-profit
called
Art-Start. This New York City based organization brings the arts to
children in homeless shelters. If you’ve been thinking about ways to put
your vocation where your values are you’ll be inspired by this organization
and the people who started it.
WritersOnTheRise.com is monthly e-zine and
web site designed to “spark writers’ creativity, authenticity and sense of
satisfaction.” Aimed at both emerging and established writers the site
features interviews, articles, tips and photos from successful authors, as
well as how-I-did-it-style articles from writers who are soaring to new
heights.
Join a Success Team
Barclay Williams is a woman with a dream. Like most of
us though, she’s finding it’s far easier to “think” about changing course
than to actually doing it. So Barclay is seeking 4-5 Raleigh, North Carolina
area dreamers to be a part of a Barbara Sher-style Success Team interested
in meeting once a week to help one another go from idea to reality. For more
information on Success Teams and how they work visit
SherSuccessTeams.com.
To join Barclay’s Raleigh area team, email her at
barclaywilliams@yahoo.com with some possible evenings or weekend meeting
times and the best way to contact you.
Work At What You Love
Finally, if you want to
work for yourself look to people who are doing it. If you can’t join us at
this summer’s Work at What You Love, I encourage to scroll up to the
Workshop Update to read the inspiring stories of some of our small business
panelists. If you missed the four panelists profiled in the last issue,
click here.
Working for Yourself May Be Good for Your Heart
According to British researchers, dull, steady,
unexciting jobs may make the heart beat in an unchanging, rapid rhythm which
in turn could lead to heart disease. A healthy heart varies, says researcher
Dr. Harry Hemingway of University College London Medical School. The study,
which was conducted exclusively with men, but presumably would find similar
results with women, found that men in jobs with little control over their
daily tasks and those in low social positions had faster and less-variable
rates.
“This finding helps explain why men with low-paying
jobs and less education have a higher risk for heart disease, a trend that
has been evident for the last 30 years,” said Dr. Hemingway. One way to
prevent heart disease he says is to change workplace conditions.
As Changing Course readers well know, there’s no better
way to change workplace conditions than to get out of the workplace, start
your own business, and take control over your job, your life, and your
health.
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