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...University of Pennsylvania, made a killing as a Wall Street trader in the 1990s, but quit finance to chase his dream of becoming a basketball coach. He has trained many NBA players, including this year's top draft pick, Oklahoma's Blake Griffin, and even landed an assistant coaching gig for the Los Angeles Clippers' summer-league team...
...wealth. He even paid for forensic accountants to untangle Jackson's finances. The Gloved One began writing his own checks. But even with cutbacks, Jackson needed income to maintain his lifestyle. That would mean performing; he hadn't toured since 1997. So he reluctantly agreed to a London gig that would eventually grow to 50 shows. He had already sold over $90 million worth of tickets. The aging King of Pop was primed for a comeback...
...occasion, she would emerge into notoriety, as in her 1997 gig with David Letterman, during which her chatter was so giggly and addled that it gave rise to reports, never substantiated, of drug use. (Early this year, after enduring Joaquin Phoenix's epic of incoherence, Letterman said, "We owe an apology to Farrah Fawcett.") A post-Majors boyfriend, screenwriter James Orr, was charged with battering her for rejecting his marriage proposal. And she somehow endured a mostly on-again quarter-century relationship with the legendarily truculent Ryan O'Neal, once the charming star of Love Story, later the provocateur...
That doesn't mean the classic strategies have all been tossed out the window. Persistence, self-branding, professional presentation - the things a career coach would have steered you toward two decades ago - are still necessary. Social networks alone won't get you a new gig. But as Brian Ward's 11-day job search makes clear, they can go a long way to help. Here...
...could not refuse. Alison Krauss, who had just released her first solo album as a bluegrass singer and fiddler, invited Brown to join her on a tour with the Union Station band as their banjo player. Brown toured with the ensemble for the next three years and their first gig brought back to the gates of Harvard in Sanders Theatre.SERENDIPITYIn short order, Brown began receiving accolades from the professional music industry for her playing. In 1991, she collected the most prestigious of awards for a bluegrass instrumentalist—the International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player of the Year.In...