<p>Interests and strenghts that run in families made me think of people who have achieved fame/fortune in one field, who then change fields or in the case of those in the arts- go back and forth from music/writing/painting etc.</p>
<p>Brian May, an astrophysicist and chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University was also known as lead guitarist for the rock band Queen.</p>
<p>Steve Martin who began as a stand up comic and writer, has expanded into acting, playwriting and juggling and won awards for his work on the banjo.</p>
<p>Several people have switched over to politics after careers in other fields.
Jesse Ventura, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger started as a Austrian American bodybuilder, who expanded into acting ( I first saw him in * Stay Hungry* with Jeff Bridges in 1976).</p>
<p>Many of us change goals and interests not to mention careers more than once in a lifetime- & I think the trend of trying to steer students into interest tracks in high school-leaves them SOL when the work world changes faster than they can adapt to it.
[The</a> Seattle Times: Education: Foundation’s small-schools experiment has yet to yield big results](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2003348701_gates05m.html]The”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2003348701_gates05m.html)</p>