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Fuse Different Interests into an Incredible Career
Glenn Street entered the sports mascot industry by happenstance, but he got hooked by passion.
Street, now president of Calgary-based Street Characters, which supplies mascot costumes for hundreds of professional and college sports teams in the US, Canada and elsewhere, used to work in commercial real estate. He considers this career "a great 'paid' education," adding, "I learned a great deal about marketing, sales, negotiating, business law, contract law and other things." Street's career direction changed when he was called into emergency service as a mascot during the 1984 Calgary Stampede. His committee chair asked him to substitute for the usual mascot, who was in the hospital. "They figure the weight of the costume (85 pounds) has caused his rib cage to compress, and so they've had to remove one of his ribs, because it was pressing against his heart," Street remembers the chair telling him -- followed quickly by, "So, do you want to wear the costume this weekend?" "Being young and foolish, I agreed," says Street. Taking this risk not only helped Street spot a budding industry and grow a company to serve it, but it also showed him he could combine two seemingly divergent passions -- business and mascots -- into a rewarding career. Career Fusion in Action Thousands of others have combined their interests to find fulfilling careers. For example:
Fuse Your Interests into a Career Would you like to be the next Street, Hoagland or Goff? It's not as outlandish as you may think, especially if you listen to the following advice from those who've successfully combined interests into their work:
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