Thomas MacEntee has made his hobby his occupation – and with a lot of hard work, it’s paying off. The following excerpt is from an article in the October 29, 2012 edition of Forbes.
How would you like to turn your hobby into a second career?
That’s exactly what Thomas MacEntee of Chicago, a former tech professional who’s now a genealogist, did after unexpectedly losing his job in 2008. The transformation was neither fast nor easy, but MacEntee, 50, couldn’t be happier.“I am moving forward all because I took a chance on building a career to help people look backwards,” he told me.
An art history major in college, MacEntee spent decades working as a technology trainer, technical writer, applications analyst and project manager for several large global law firms. But after the last one filed for bankruptcy in 2008, MacEntee found himself reeling from the experience of “being tossed out on my butt.” He decided it was time to shift gears.
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