One Good Career Deserves Another (Published 2005)
SUSAN PANISCH has been through two graduate degrees, four career tracks and one corporate training program during her zigzagging career. Of all those, her stint on Wall Street was the low point. Looking back, she's not sure what possessed her in the first place. She had been working in television production and found herself ''itching to do something else,'' she says of her (very brief) detour into banking. It wasn't until she was well into training at Smith Barney that she really had a sense of what she was changing to. She left after nine months, closing one early chapter in the search for the right career.
