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“People are really looking for good, unbiased financial advice right now,” says Ellen Turf, CEO of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors. “It’s not the kind of job where you have to be there from eight to five and you get an hour for lunch. You can do it on your own terms. We see a lot of career changers.”Renee Weese, 54, was a vice president for Hartford Financial Services Group when her division was sold in 2006, and she decided to make the break she’d been thinking about for years. “I’d always worked with the financial aspects of the business and enjoyed it,” she says. She’d gotten her MBA in 2002, so she started working to become a certified financial plan-ner (which takes at least three years), then joined a small financial planning practice in Atlanta. Soon she’ll have enough experience to satisfy the work requirement for a certificate in financial planning. “When I was younger, I was motivated to be successful, make a good living and build financially,” she says. “As I’ve gotten older, passion has come more into play. I want to feel like I’m doing what I want, like I’m contributing.”
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