Greetings everyone, I'm Jayna Sheffield at the business desk and I'd like you to meet Lee Gravinsky who up till 12 years ago worked at IBM as a very successful programmer.  As a matter of fact Lee was a team leader and when IBM literally gave her the boot in 1993 by forcing her to take a package she was absolutely devastated.  You see, as Lee tells it, IBM at that time was in very deep trouble and in order to save itself it offered packages to employees chosen by management.  Up till her forced departure from IBM Lee had been a top performer and had even received several IBM awards for top achievers during her 12 year stint at IBM.
When Lee left she had no idea as to what she was going to do because as she put it "I never expected to be treated like this let alone lost my job without any warning!" 
Lee spent some time trying to find her feet but her attempts to re-enter the IT world were unsuccessful.  She tried her hand at becoming a technical writer but this too failed because there were persons who were much more skilled than she was who were also looking for jobs in that particular field.  Her marriage started to crumble because she and her husband could not cope with the loss in income from the loss of her job and Lee was unable to stop a total disintegration of her marriage.  After this Lee began to lose her grip on life but little did she know that she would have an opportunity to turn things around in a big way.
Fast forward to the Spring of 1996 when we discovered this very downtrodden lady at one of our seminars.  She was noticed by one of our consultants as she sat quietly at the back of the class taking notes.  Our consultant got chatting with Lee and after some doing he managed to convince her to meet with our team.  We took Lee to lunch a few days after the seminar and somehow convinced her to come in to our offices to discuss her options. 
Lucky for Lee and very delightful for us she came and over a period of a year we worked with this determined lady to develop a plan of action whereby she would craft a new career for herself.  Lee went back to school and with the help of a loan she graduated in 2000 with a degree in Spanish translation.  Since then she has been working as a very successful translator for a huge global conglomerate and today she is a very successful translator and consultant in International business where she trains Spanish-speaking businessmen to become more adept in the North American arena.  Believe it or not she received a call from IBM last year asking if she would return to them and she told them to "Shove it."
Today, Lee Gravinsky is earning a very healthy six figure income and she is the toast of the town in her field.  As she puts it:  "I saved myself by choosing to go into an entirely new career and it took a lot for me to do this.  I owe it all to the team of consultants headed by Jeff Marquis and Kerry Harrison and I thank them from the bottom of my heart.  This team really worked hard with me and they supported and encouraged me all the way.  If any of you out there finds yourself in a similar position to mine then take a leaf out of my book and think hard about choosing a new route for your comeback."
Marquis and Harrison are about to release the second edition of their book "Untapped Wealth Discovered" and their book shows you how to turn your life around if you find yourself in a similar position to Lee Gravinsky.  Visit www.untappedwealth.com/order.htm to pick up your copy.