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Empty Nester Designs a Jewelry Business
BY PETER KING | Special to Newsday 2:53 PM EDT, April 17, 2009
If you're an empty nester whose kids couldn't get back for Easter or Passover this year, it may be a good time to go from feeling down to up-and-running.
"You're still a person, even when you're not a parent," says Melissa Schorr, who transformed herself from stay-at-home mom to entrepreneur earlier this year. "And it's easier to work than it is to be a parent."
In Schorr's case, her single-minded focus was spurred by a double epiphany. With her daughter away at college and her son soon to follow, she recalls the day she prepared an appetizer for her husband, complete with mozzarella, tomatoes and basil.
"I remember my husband opening up the refrigerator and he said, 'Mozzarella? Don't you know I like Gorgonzola?' And I decided at that moment my life had been reduced to cheese." About the same time, her son somberly asked her if she would be OK after he left for college. What could have been depressing moments instead was the push she needed to start the business she had been planning for years - a gold- and jewelry-buying service called Divorce Your Jewelry (divorceyourjewelry.net).
Part of her business model is to reach those looking to sell gold and jewelry they haven't worn for years because it brings back bad memories of failed relationships. "I take gold with the fuzz balls from the back of the drawer," she jokes.
Although she's based in Manhattan, the Syosset-raised Schorr still calls herself "a Long Island girl," and she has several Island clients. Before taking about 20 years off to raise her kids, she designed shoes for Paloma, the upscale Italian clothing company.
"I used to look in the sky and say, 'Oh, my God, you've given me the perfect job,' " she says. "For many years, with the kids, I was wondering, what's ever going to come to me that's the perfect job again?"
Her advice to moping empty nesters: Get over it. Like her, you can replace the eggs that hatched with golden ones.
"You're the same person you were when you were young and had plans," she says. "You took time off to raise a family, but now you're free. Go out and fulfill your dreams."
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