Different people choose different paths.

While one strives to bring out the best in classical musicians, another prepares 300-pound offensive linemen for battle. One runs a pastry shop, another a recording studio. The people profiled here are shown doing their jobs, whether they are acting, cooking, teaching, saving lives, planning finances or getting involved with politics.

They are a former student training to become a paramedic, a professor with a parallel career as a politician and an archaeologist who turns his attention to the World Wide Web. Some have chosen activism in various forms.

One man traveled the world and wound up happily working in city parks; another followed his grandfather and father into the printing business. Along the way, some have changed their minds and their paths. - All have a story to tell.

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