Who's had a successful Second Act careerwise?

[Chris Pascale]

My spouse started a PhD at 49 and eventually went into higher ed teaching. He worked in that system for 10 years.

The best teacher I personally ever had was a police officer and transitioned to teaching.

So, in short, I think 2nd act teachers are amazing. If you feel called to it, I say go for it.

Teaching is my plan maybe from age 50-60. If I FI/RE because of my FNMA/FMCC gamble, it might start sooner, and perhaps as an adjunct for the duration.

[Metalcat]

I went back to school in my 40s, fully retrained as a therapist, and launched my own practice in September.

Hope it's going great because from the posts you've put up on here I would guess you are very good, and people are happy to see you.

Awe, thanks.

I am doing very well. It's a hugely oversaturated industry in Canada, we have a few schools churning out grads far faster than the market can bear, but I have a very specific and rare niche that keeps me as busy as I want to be doing work I deeply enjoy.

The people who read my info and actually want to come see me are exactly the kind of people I want to work with. I'm very, very proud of my marketing copy because of how selective it's been for the exact right kind of clients for my practice.

What's hilarious is that I used to help other healthcare professionals write marketing copy, and I put a huge amount of time and effort into my own only to publish it and then 20 minutes later go back in and delete everything and then write something totally off the cuff instead.

Apparently that's what I needed to do, write something really authentic to my personality, and now I attract like flies the exact kind of weirdos I want to work with.

It's been fun. I truly never expected it to work out this well.