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...side that earlier generations felt constrained to repress when they put on a business suit and tie. Bonnie Weisner, 34, a senior consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Fort Lee, N.J., took advantage of the firm's flextime policy because she wanted to pursue an outside interest--becoming an emergency medical technician with a volunteer ambulance corps. In September she took a 40% pay cut and went from a 55-hr. workweek to a 24-hr. workweek at the consulting firm. She spends the rest of the week in training to become an EMT. She has an understanding with the company that...
...Pacific Bell. Cotton wanted to retire two years earlier than he finally did. "I looked at my financial options and realized that it would not be in my best interests," he says. In his two remaining years on the job, he got a promotion from repair technician to business-marketing manager but then was told he had to relocate to San Francisco. Not wanting to leave the area he had called home for 22 years, Cotton opted for a $400,000 cash buyout. With the help of a financial planner, Cotton learned that he and his wife Stacy...
...technician who arrived for work around 10:50 a.m. said, "From the outside, it looked kind of serious. There were a lot of emergency people around...
...cold war also had plenty of action, and the series makes the most of this as well. The failed Hungarian revolution of 1956, for example, provides grim footage and heartbreaking reminiscences. Weeping, an agricultural technician recalls how often he was tempted to leave the barricades, but when he saw the 14- and 15-year-old boys fighting beside him, he could not. "The shame kept me there," he says. Of course, the hot wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and elsewhere offer plenty of drama, and it is exciting to hear a mercenary talk about fighting in Angola. But the real...
...There's no information overload here, no crank calls, no Jehovah's Witnesses bugging you and no one trying to rip you off," says Barnett, a former X-ray technician who moved here nine years ago with a bad back and a disability check...