INTRODUCTION
In 1995, Betsy Sloan was thirty-five years old and had worked her way into “the perfect job.” As a CPA in a large California insurance company, she had a great salary, stock options, a “fabulous boss,” and hours that were the envy of her friends.
“And I was miserable,” she says today. She leans comfortably into the back of a chair, her dark eyes sharply focused behind her stylish, orange-framed glasses. “The art of the deal, the big transaction— that never did it for me. What was worse, I could project thirty years into the future and know exactly what I’d be doing every quarter—making SEC filings, doing internal reporting for the CFO. It was mind-numbing.”
“I felt totally stuck,” she adds. “I made too much money to quit, but I ...
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