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Mid-life career changers often feel totally overwhelmed when they contemplate all the things they have to do. In fact, the reason most career change fizzles is related to lack of time. If you're working 40 to 50 hours a week, how will you squeeze in your search for a new career? And where do you start? -- Career change time doesn't work the same as career success time. When you have a job in a corporation, you often realize you need to focus. Your mission is to "get the job done." But when you want to find a new career, openness is more important than focus. A distraction may turn out to hold the key to your next life. Serendipity used to be considered woo-woo and even a little silly. But browse through serious academic journals of career research and you will find a surprising number of people find a new career by accident, not through a step-by-step careful process. For some reason, though, working through a step-by- step process can trigger a serendipito...