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...student coaching. At the height of her career she was managing more than 100 people and earning, with bonuses, close to $90,000 year. Constant emails, conference calls and power meetings were part of her routine.
Then she decided she had had enough. Last summer Pierce spent her days harvesting broccoli, mowing orchards and hoeing 300-foot-long salad mix beds under a hot sun. Pierce's season as a farm worker was part of an apprenticeship in organic farming sponsored by the University of California-Santa Cruz. In exchange for $3,200 in tuition, Pierce got the privilege of living in a tent for six months, sharing a modest kitchen and dining room with 50 people, and performing stoop labor five days a week.
"The change feels so good," says Pierce, who graduated from Vermont's...
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