Question of the Day | 09/02/2008 1:00 am

If you could switch careers today, what would you choose as your new field?

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Judith Martin

Judith Martin | 09/02/2008 1:00 am

Judith Martin Seeks Career Advice

Do you know of any other career where a woman barely more than five feet tall can intimate everyone?
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Joan Ganz Cooney

Joan Ganz Cooney | 09/02/2008 1:00 am

The One Thing Joan Ganz Cooney Doesn't Regret

It’s too late for me to think about switching careers even as a fantasy. I have no regrets on that score.
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Liz Smith

Liz Smith | 09/02/2008 1:00 am

Liz Smith: A Trophy Wife?

If I could switch careers today, I would like to be one of those young trophy wives with everything still ahead of me, working hard to reassure that investment banker or Google-type inventor entrepreneur that it should all be put in my name. I’ve been a fool about money all my life and in my second “career” I would put myself in a ”business” where I could change that circumstance.

Click here to read my column in the Post.

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Laurie Deer
Liz Smith I love your choice of the “Trophy Wife Career” and your approach is brilliant and much used today. I am in the midst of a career change at 43 and it’s exhilarating, it’s freeing, it’s blissful. I just need to find the career now. It’s all in the knowing that changing your career is possible at any age.
By Laurie Deer on 09/02/2008 7:10 am
Lorraine Bates
I wanted to be Leslie Stahl when I was a teenager. I still think being a journalist like Leslie would be great.
By Lorraine Bates on 09/02/2008 8:15 am
Mugsy Peabody
Lorraine, I’m sure Amy Goodwin would welcome the help. Go for it!
By Mugsy Peabody on 09/02/2008 4:37 pm
Lorraine Bates
Thanks for the encouragement! I am writing a book - I’m on the Margaret Mitchell plan, though, LOL!
By Lorraine Bates on 09/02/2008 6:13 pm
phyllis Doyle Pepe
I think Mugsy was referring to the arrest of Amy for a supposed incite to riot at the convention––she was, in a word, manhandled––shameful!!!!
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 09/02/2008 6:26 pm
Mugsy Peabody
And I was saying Lorraine should write, because she’s got a wonderful voice. Both.
By Mugsy Peabody on 09/02/2008 6:35 pm
Lorraine Bates
Actually, I read about that after I replied, shame on me - but you are correct - shameful - and I’d still love to do it if I could. I’m a “fluffy” woman - love to see them try and manhandle me, LOL!
By Lorraine Bates on 09/02/2008 7:06 pm
Mugsy Peabody
www.democracynow.org is a good example of fair and balanced reporting. Of course the Neocons hate her.
By Mugsy Peabody on 09/02/2008 8:47 pm
Lorraine Bates
If you’re hated that much, you must be doing something right!
By Lorraine Bates on 09/02/2008 9:08 pm
Mugsy Peabody
“Feared,” rather than “hated,” Lorraine, I think. I’ve been just now writing about courage on my blog, www.mugsypeabody.blogspot.com. Please join me there.
By Mugsy Peabody on 09/02/2008 9:12 pm
Sharon Lee
At 63 I am back to school now, and pursuing a new avenue in life. It is wonderful. In our nation the choices are so diverse, it’s taken me awhile to find what I am truly meant for. I love being a woman of the millenium.
By Sharon Lee on 09/02/2008 8:32 am
phyllis Doyle Pepe
I have had quite a few different careers and enjoyed them, but if I had to do it all over again I would go into foreign policy. I have become completely hooked on it. Or be a journalist like Martha Gellhorn, but then I’d have drunk too much, smoked too much, married someone like Ernest Hemingway and taken my own life at the end and then where would I be? It’s fun to think “what if” but I think the road I did take, although very bumpy at times, was the best one for me.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 09/02/2008 8:40 am
Jeannot Kensinger
Too late to even have a fantasy but then again, I think I will go with Liz and be a “trophy wife” . The man would have to be as nice a person as my husband is or no deal.
By Jeannot Kensinger on 09/02/2008 9:52 am
Mugsy Peabody
As George Eliot is widely quoted as saying, JMK, “It is never too late to be who you might have been.”
By Mugsy Peabody on 09/02/2008 4:38 pm
Jeannot Kensinger
Oh Mugsy I thought George Eliot was a bit too optimistic. Come to think of it , I had a friend who at 78 became a trophy wife, at least it looked that way to her friends. Turned out she became his nurse, maid and cook. When he died he did leave her a good fat wallet.
By Jeannot Kensinger on 09/02/2008 4:48 pm
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