If you are what you eat, then most Cape Codders would be a clam — or maybe a lobster roll A land named for a type of fish should abound with chances to sample tasty seafood, and Cape Cod does not disappointSo you squandered an estate note on a bachelor’s degree, then trudged through more entry-level hardships and thankless internships than should be legally permissable, only to backslide into a self-esteem shattering, résumé-derailing grind, several tax brackets below your dignity. It’s impossible not to notice how the faces in this photo have matured since you last saw the Jonas Brothers — that is, unless you’re one of the rabid fans who have made their previous tours into sell-out smashes.
HOW TO MAKE IT
We would all chase our dream job if we thought there was more money in it. Still, most of us assume that if you quit the rat race to do something that you love, the trade off is living poverty-stricken in a flea pit for an eternity.
That’s not so, says Valerie Young, owner of ChangingCourse.com, a business she founded in 1995 to help people turn their passions, be it antique cars or astrophysics, into profitable businesses. Young, who makes six times her former income at a Fortune 200 insurance company, says no interest is too obscure to make you a good living.
Dyan deNapoli was senior penguin aquarist at the Boston Aquarium when she decided to set up her own business and attended one of Young’s workshops. “She was thinking, how on earth do I become a self-employed penguin expert?” says Young. DeNapoli did just that by giving educational talks about penguins to kids, college students and seniors but Young thought she should think bigger. “I said ‘you are THE penguin lady. You need to think international.’”
Since then, deNapoli has gone on cruises to Antarctica and the Galapagos Islands as the resident penguin expert, appeared on CNN and received a six-figure book deal to write about her rescue of 40,000 penguins in South Africa. “She turned a dream job into a dream business,” says Young, who argues that if penguins produce profits, any interest can.
– Kathryn Tully is a freelance journalist who has contributed to the Financial Times, Euromoney Magazine and The Guardian newspaper
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HOW TO SPEND IT
Tonight we can wave the office goodbye, hang out with family and friends, eat some delicious food and drink some nice booze. If you’re thinking of enjoying a scotch or two, the bottle in your hand could be worth considerably more in a few years time.
This month, Christie’s held its second spirits auction in New York and the top lot, the 1964 Bowmore Trilogy, three very rare single malts from one of the oldest and most prestigious distilleries in Scotland, sold for $21,600.
Whisky is appreciating because people are drinking more of it and, since fine whisky needs to age in the cask for many years, distilleries cannot keep up with demand. But you don’t have to shell out $21,600 to invest in whisky if you keep it for 10 years or more. “You can spend less than $100 on one of the first vintages from Kilkerran or Port Charlotte,” says Jonathan Goldstein, owner of New York’s Park Avenue Liquor Shop, a top spirits retailer that supplied several lots in the Christie’s sale.
Kilkerran and Port Charlotte are newly reopened distilleries and Goldstein says the trick is not just to look at the whisky’s age, but anything that could make it scarce. “Is it a signed or unusual bottle, a limited edition release, from an unusual distillery or from an unusual cask?” he says, adding that whisky from closed distilleries like Port Ellen are also a good buy because there isn’t much left.
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