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FREE Resources
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
This site is here to help you make a career change or
go back to work while keeping a healthy life balance of
priorities, family and relationships.
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Gannon's work as a
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trade association
executive director,
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consultant,
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hospital foundation
president and CEO are
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"Starting Over Without
Starting at the Bottom."
Get Mary Lee's FREE
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Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
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Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over Without
Starting at the Bottom."
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* Starting over in
their career or
personal life
* Empty nesters
* Entrepreneurs
* Networking
* Job Seekers
* Starting all over
again
* Going through a
divorce
* Looking for career
opportunities
* Seeking FREE
career advice and
education
* Finding mentors
* Setting new life
goals
To chart your road
map to success
click here for FREE
"Worksheets and
Articles."
Articles
Millionaire Women Look Ahead
You might be surprised to learn the general profile of a millionaire woman.
In the book “Millionaire Women Next Door,” Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D., the
New York Times best selling author of The Millionaire Next Door, found that
many people cast millionaire women in a stereotypical light – wed to their
businesses, uncaring, unmarried, unliked, undesirable, a bunch of angry
revenge-seeking workaholics.
The data says it ain’t so.
Of the millionaire women he studied, the median age was 49, they work
about 49 hours a week and exercise three-and-a-half hours a week. Only
one in 20 has never been married. One in five is currently divorced. Of
those who are married, half had been divorced at least once. Many report
that their former husbands were exploitive and narcissistic.
For those who are married, only one in 20 reports that her husband is in
charge of the household budget, financial planning, investing, selecting
financial advisors and the like. But 46 percent said that these decisions are
made together.
About one in four attended college but never finished. Sixty percent are
college graduates. Just over half of those who are college graduates paid
their own tuition.
Fewer than one in five ever attended a private school, but 54 percent have
paid private school tuition for their grandchildren. Nearly all are
homeowners.
They are significantly more likely than their male counterparts to detail
household expenses, research stock purchases, hold stocks longer, use
investment counselors, and have defined short and long term investment
goals.
They donate seven percent of their income to noble causes, 3½ times more
than the average for U.S. households.
They are frugal. The most they’ve spent on a suite is $400 and more than
four in five develop a detailed shopping list before going grocery shopping.
They are twice as likely to have spent time looking for a foreclosed property
as a new home and are more likely to have furniture reupholstered or
refinished before buying new. They have switched long distance
companies more than the average American and are significantly more
likely to have clothes mended or altered instead of buying new.
Most are not members of country clubs nor is anyone else in the
household. Nearly 69 percent took on leadership roles before becoming
teenagers.
What I find most important about Stanley’s research is that these woman
have disciplined themselves to look forward to the future but almost all of
them had some adversity and reversals in life. However, only one in five
ever spends time thinking about how things could have been.
The lessons here? All of these women built financial independence without
allowing strife to get in their way. We can learn from their strategies. A
wealthy background, private school education, a college degree, and a
wealthy family or husband are not essential to building financial
independence. Frugality, generosity and a focus on the future are. Do you
have a household budget? Have you analyzed it lately? What causes do
you actively care about? Do you have personal, career and financial goals?
Only you can do it. Start now!
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance."
For the FREE Articles: “It’s Not Who You Know It’s Who knows You” and
“Goals - What They Did for Me” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon went from being a stay-at-home mother with four children
to divorce, poverty and then on to become a newspaper reporter, trade
association executive director, public relations consultant, and foundation
president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog
on her website at www.startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at
info@startingovernow.com.
You might be surprised to learn the general profile of a millionaire woman.
In the book “Millionaire Women Next Door,” Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D., the
New York Times best selling author of The Millionaire Next Door, found that
many people cast millionaire women in a stereotypical light – wed to their
businesses, uncaring, unmarried, unliked, undesirable, a bunch of angry
revenge-seeking workaholics.
The data says it ain’t so.
Of the millionaire women he studied, the median age was 49, they work
about 49 hours a week and exercise three-and-a-half hours a week. Only
one in 20 has never been married. One in five is currently divorced. Of
those who are married, half had been divorced at least once. Many report
that their former husbands were exploitive and narcissistic.
For those who are married, only one in 20 reports that her husband is in
charge of the household budget, financial planning, investing, selecting
financial advisors and the like. But 46 percent said that these decisions are
made together.
About one in four attended college but never finished. Sixty percent are
college graduates. Just over half of those who are college graduates paid
their own tuition.
Fewer than one in five ever attended a private school, but 54 percent have
paid private school tuition for their grandchildren. Nearly all are
homeowners.
They are significantly more likely than their male counterparts to detail
household expenses, research stock purchases, hold stocks longer, use
investment counselors, and have defined short and long term investment
goals.
They donate seven percent of their income to noble causes, 3½ times more
than the average for U.S. households.
They are frugal. The most they’ve spent on a suite is $400 and more than
four in five develop a detailed shopping list before going grocery shopping.
They are twice as likely to have spent time looking for a foreclosed property
as a new home and are more likely to have furniture reupholstered or
refinished before buying new. They have switched long distance
companies more than the average American and are significantly more
likely to have clothes mended or altered instead of buying new.
Most are not members of country clubs nor is anyone else in the
household. Nearly 69 percent took on leadership roles before becoming
teenagers.
What I find most important about Stanley’s research is that these woman
have disciplined themselves to look forward to the future but almost all of
them had some adversity and reversals in life. However, only one in five
ever spends time thinking about how things could have been.
The lessons here? All of these women built financial independence without
allowing strife to get in their way. We can learn from their strategies. A
wealthy background, private school education, a college degree, and a
wealthy family or husband are not essential to building financial
independence. Frugality, generosity and a focus on the future are. Do you
have a household budget? Have you analyzed it lately? What causes do
you actively care about? Do you have personal, career and financial goals?
Only you can do it. Start now!
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance."
For the FREE Articles: “It’s Not Who You Know It’s Who knows You” and
“Goals - What They Did for Me” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon went from being a stay-at-home mother with four children
to divorce, poverty and then on to become a newspaper reporter, trade
association executive director, public relations consultant, and foundation
president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog
on her website at www.startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at
info@startingovernow.com.
Mary Lee's
Book: Mary Lee's
book on "Starting Over"
will be released by New
Horizon Press in
November. Look for it in
bookstores then!
Book: Mary Lee's
book on "Starting Over"
will be released by New
Horizon Press in
November. Look for it in
bookstores then!