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8 Niche Careers You Didn’t Even Know Existed

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Imagine the next time you ask someone what they do for a living and they respond, “Oh, I test waterslides for a living,” or “I study the curious contents found in the pockets of antique clothing.” My job required education from an accredited college, with a degree in perfusion science.

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How Maya Penn Became One of the Most Socially Conscious Entrepreneurs of Gen Z

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That company is Maya’s Ideas—a sustainable fashion brand Penn started by upcycling old clothing and recycled materials to make tops, hats, scarves and neck warmers. Maya’s Ideas uses organic, recycled and vintage materials to create clothing and accessories. Today, Penn serves as founder and CEO. Photo courtesy of Maya Penn.

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4 Books to Help You Reflect, Replenish and Grow this Month

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Since becoming business partners in 2008 amid the Great Recession, the authors are also co-owners of Utah’s Powder Mountain, the largest ski resort in the U.S., Andy Dunn founded the men’s clothing company Bonobos in 2007 as a student in his second year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. By Andy Dunn.

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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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And in life, often your first act is devoted to childhood and education, your second to career and family and your third, following retirement, is how you choose to fill your golden years in service to the legacy you wish to leave. Novels have a beginning, middle and end. Leslie Jordan was likely familiar with third acts.

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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

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From early cover lines about why fine clothes are an asset in business to recent ones about how to turn social media followers into customers, the magazine has gone through a massive transformation. In 2007 SUCCESS was acquired by VideoPlus (eventually renamed SUCCESS Partners), an educational and marketing tools company based in Dallas.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

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They sold clothes out of the trunk of their car. High-end clothes are usually sold in high-end settings, not folding tables placed on concrete. By any definition he’d reached undeniable success in music by 2008, and he seemed to have a reasonable blueprint to sustain it. Eventually Jay-Z relented. Podcasts. “I Khaled is 45.

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Episode 317: The Analog Way with Jeff Sheldon

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This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education. Established in 1962, UCI offers education for adult learners in Orange County. Jeff launched Ugmonk in 2008 as a creative outlet to design products that he wanted to wear and use.

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