I left my white-collar media career at 55 for a $25-an-hour job working on boats. I'm happier than I was at my desk.

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Marc Pascarelli left a 30-year media career to attend trade school at 55. He now works on boats in Miami and enjoys being away from a desk.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marc Pascarelli, based in Miami, about his career pivot from white-collar media jobs to the marine mechanic trade. It's been edited for length and clarity.Over three decades, my hands-on media career slowly shrank down to a single, glowing screen. It didn't start out that way. I got a master's from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program in the late '90s.

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