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More magazine has an article in its April issue headlined \u201cThe power of micro change<\/a>.\u201d
\nI just returned from a work trip and one of my guilt airplane pleasures is photo-heavy women\u2019s magazines. Glamour is a go to, and I try to mix it up with some others I wouldn\u2019t typically read at home: Vogue, O, Real Simple or anything that attracts my eye with its cover.
\nOf course when More touts a story of reinvention on its cover, that called to me, even if I’m still just barely outside their demographic of women 40 plus.
\nI thought it was going to be a story of how a minor change \u2013 exercising a little, tweaking your diet, sleeping a few more minutes \u2013 can pay off.
\nInstead, it profiles six women who serendipitously discovered new career paths, like a social worker who started to sell Mary Kay then got inspired to launch her own beauty products business. Author Carin Rubenstein\u2019s article<\/a> has the subhead:<\/p>\n

One small move can have a huge ripple effect in your life. Meet six women who weren\u2019t trying to start a revolution but did find a wonderful new path.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The stories are lovely \u2013 a marketing director who served meals to the homeless and decided to become a psychotherapist, a creative director who now paints full time \u2013 but I have one concern. I think Americans sometimes fetishize entrepreneurship and artistic pursuits, and that can be dangerous.
\nSelf employment is not for everyone. If you lack sales, marketing and accounting skills, for example, you might be a fantastic carpenter or seamstress but your business might be in trouble if you don\u2019t get help. If you don\u2019t have the self discipline to complete tasks without a boss to answer to or trusted advisers who can help you develop your skills where you’re weak, you might struggle. Can you handle the risk of not drawing a steady paycheck and employer-funded benefits?
\nSelling paintings or jewelry, as two profiled women now do, can be tremendously hard work. Beginning artists typically don\u2019t sell each piece for huge sums, and making each sale will mean putting yourself out there \u2013 and risking having your art criticized or mocked. If you take those rejections personally (it\u2019s your personal creation so that\u2019s only natural) both your sales and your ego could suffer. Do the math: if you sell a painting a week for $1,000, that’s $52,000 a year. Before expenses. Before taxes. Before taking a single week off.
\nThis isn\u2019t to take away from the transformations of the profiled women. They\u2019re inspiring tales of following your bliss. I would never diminish someone’s desire to follow their passion.
\nBut I would have also loved to read about a woman who made a move into a different function at a company she likes, or who found an employer that better fit her needs and values, or who worked with her boss to get better work\/life balance to make time for a new hobby she loved.
\nIf you want to strike out on your own, I salute you. New York Entrepreneur Week<\/a> is going on as we speak, and all you have to do is check out their Twitter feed<\/a> or their Web site<\/a> (We are the catalysts for conquering today\u2019s harsh economic challenges.) to feel their passion and determination.
\nI just don\u2019t think we should hold that up as the only path for reinvention.
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