Career transition rebounders such as those profiled in a Business Week article (and the related on-line slideshow) are examples demonstrating that you can leave the corporate nest and go on to successfully "sell your better mousetrap" or yourself. (Not explicitly mentioned is the very real issue of how to sell your newly-rebounded self, or your new venture. No matter: we cover that how-to-sell in this blog.)
The 29 people — career transition rebounders — profiled in the video/slide-show include,
— an editor who set up a website, Recessionwire for out-of-work professionals;
— a toolmaker at a closed GM plant who took his expertise and set up his own firm in that same field:
— several web-developers (and specialists in related fields) who began marketing their expertise;
— a former banker who set up a financial training and consulting practice;
— a pair of guys who took buyouts from an electrical products manufacturing firm and set up a company to develop and marketing learning kits, first for children, then — planned — for corporations and the military:
— another manager who both went into management consulting, and also set up a website to market other expertise gained via his long-time hobby:
— a radio-TV broadcast multi-talented guy went on to set up his own voice-over, advertising, and audio-books business:
— a director of quality control who returned to his former field of management consulting, specializing in the very hot topic of productivity improvement within corporations:
— the creator of a "concierge" service for elderly people living on their own;
— some 20-somethings who set up consulting practices to help stodgy corporations step into the "exotic" social-media marketing field: