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7 top tips to help you switch careers

Susan Eckert went from career coaching to photography

Photo credit: William Perlman for Newsday | Susan Eckert went from career coaching to photography and now runs LI Art Photography in Brightwaters. She said she followed her own advice and followed her passion.

When it came to making a career change, Susan Eckert was one career coach who ended up taking her own advice. Two Christmases ago she received a camera as a gift, which got her thinking of how she had always wanted to be an artist. That and, "Here I am telling other people to follow what they love, and I wasn't doing it," she said.

Over the next year Eckert, 40, followed the career transition...

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