How's this for entrepreneurial? A former personal assistant to a hedge fund manager has set up shop on the streets, not unlike Lucy of Peanuts fame, just outside the NYSE. Her homemade sign that says, "Are you stuck? The coach is in." Kim Ann Curtin is a "New York City life coach" who is offering some pro bono services to stressed out financial services employees, according to a Fortune profile. 

She's no doubt hoping to generate some longer term business. She's had some interesting "clients." One banker kept coming to work "every morning for five weeks, dressed up in his usual suits, because he couldn't bear to tell his wife and kids that he'd been canned." Curtin believes that all of us should have a "What If" game plan at hand. She also believes in "downloading" our pain to our loved ones. 

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