I'm now on my third career.
I started in academics (that is if you don't consider training for the Olympics in Fencing and ass't coaching at Barnard College of Columbia University for two years a career) and was involved in cancer research both at Columbia's University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York Medical College from 83-97. My research centered around using combinations of different drugs including a newly discovered class of drugs called hypoxic cell sensitizers and ionizing radiation as well as 'exotic' types of ionizing radiation (neutrons, protons, heavy charged particles, negative pi-mesons) to treat tumors.
From 1996-2001 I published
Ultimate Audio magazine (actually
The Audiophile Voice was the first magazine I started). Pretty nice magazine (we were nominated for several design awards), great staff of writers and learned a lot about the publishing field. At it's peak, we were distributed in 30 countries and were publishing 20,000 copies for each quarterly issue. Not too shabby for a self financed rag. A divorce after 22 years and having to pay the bills ended that career.
Life's too short to do something we don't like doing and ended up returning to my true passion, athletics. For the last 14 years, have been working as a Personal Training Coach at Equinox Fitness Clubs that has in that time expanded from 13 clubs in the NY Metropolitan area to a world-wide chain encompassing 75 clubs (and growing) plus a secondary line named Blink as well as Soul Cycle and Pure Yoga. I work with a wide variety of clients ranging from teenage athletes to weekend warriors to people needing to lose weight to people with different kinds of issue eg. back, hip/knee replacement, shoulder, etc. Very fulfilling and and in this ever changing health care climate, important. After all, most people see their doctor once, maybe twice a year; they see their coach three times a week. Who do you think can have a bigger impact on their lives?
And after all, went into cancer research to help people; currently, I'm helping more people than I ever imagined besides spreading the word about the importance of exercise, diet and regeneration.
It might actually be a few years after I retire depending on when that is.
Actually, there was (and is still) quite a controversy in the astronomical community. The International Astronomical Union is the governing body on such matters, and they took a vote at a meeting. But the vote was held on the last day, when most of the delegates had left, so the vote was among a very small number. Of course, Pluto could care less what we call it. 
