If you’d like ten babies or no babies, Inverness Medical Innovations Inc. (IMA) has got your back. (more)

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Sisters Tag and Catherine Goulet wrote the book Dream Careers for FabJob.com. I noticed that many of my fellow students didn’t know what exactly they would like to do after graduating and picked up a copy.

This book, which is also available online, is very easy to go through. Just follow the steps Discover, Choose, and Create. The book starts by letting you asses wheather you’re really that unhappy in your current job and what you’re actually capable of in the working environment. Then it’s time to figure out what you’d like to do in life. The writers provide a simple quiz, to make chosing a little easier for you.

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Kiplinger: To become a success in high-tech Silicon Valley, Alan Aerts used low-tech skills and hard work. He slung crates of produce for a grocery store and sold bread to restaurants while launching a vending-machine business that sells soft drinks and snack foods to workaholic computer engineers.

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Kiplinger: Maxine Clark rode to riches on the back of a teddy bear. Clark opened her first Build-A-Bear Workshop in a St. Louis shopping mall in 1997. Now the international chain generates $360 million in sales annually and has made Clark a multimillionaire.

In Clark’s stores, kids of all ages line up to create stuffed animals in what look like factories run by Dr. Seuss on casual Fridays. Guided by a peppy staff clad in denim and khakis, customers produce personalized teddy bears and other creatures. “We really are a theme park in a mall,” says Clark.

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Snowboarders ooze the slacker vibe. Their culture is based on baggy clothes, easygoing attitudes and acrobatic feats on the slopes. That’s hardly an environment that you’d expect to foster millionaires. Yet brothers Danny and Matt Kass have made a bundle with their company, Grenade Gloves, which designs and sells gear for snowboarders and their fans.

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Kiplinger: Maybe a million bucks isn’t what it used to be (there are nine million households worth seven digits in the U.S. today). But by the same token, making a million is a more-attainable goal than ever. Not there yet? Then let us inspire you with the stories of 7 men and women who started off just like you and then made it. Each of them offers advice you can use.

Millionaires #1 & #2

Caterina Fake’s entrepreneurial spirit first surfaced when, as a kid, she tried to sell her crayon drawings for a nickel apiece. It may also have been in her blood; her father left his corporate insurance job at age 55 to start his own business.

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Chris Deguara (26) grew up camping and water skiing as a youngster. Growing up in an outdoors environment enabled him to see things in nature not many other people can see. After learning the upholstery trade from his father, Chris decided to study furniture design at TAFE. Now, his work has already earned him many awards, among which Awards of distinction, woodwork, metalwork jewellery, outdoor education and Apprentice of the Year. His ‘Astro lounge’ earned him recognition as a student finalist in the 2003 Australian Furniture of the Year Awards.

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Nina Valkhoff (24) can probably turn anything into a wonderful piece of art, just by picking up her brush. Take a toilet seat. She can make you one on demand, turning your toilet into one of the best looking places in your house. She’s had her seats, wall paintings and jewelry displayed in several magazines and ads and is working very hard to create even more. She currently lives in Germany, but luckily we were still able to get in tough with here.

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Tema dreamed of becoming an artist since childhood. He always painted: at school, at home, even when he was out with my friends or relatives. During his study, teachers noticed his desire to design and illustrate. He got the opportunity to make illustrations and cover images for books they published. Tema started to work as a freelance designer\illustrator in 2001 and got noticed by an ad agency, situated in Syracuse, NY, where he got to work in motion/flash design as well. Now Tema is studying art and visual communications at the British Higher School of Art & Design, and working as a senior designer at a design studio.

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