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CANCER CAREER: If you were in a shell for any part of 2006, the New Year brings the opportunity (and the obligation) to bust out and start schmoozing. The first couple of months will be pretty intense as you find yourself drawn into massive bouts of networking despite your usual proclivities -- you might even be the object of more than one recruiter. Use that common sense you are so famous for in evaluating all promises and claims, as at least one of these connections will offer more than they can deliver. Toward the end of the year, probably around mid-autumn, you will experience a wave of nostalgia for a long-ago work situation that you know deep down is irreplaceable.

As important as your work relationships will be throughout the year, you will find your relationship with money to be just as important to your career. Focus on spending, budgeting and cost-cutting as much as possible -- the more you save early on, the better off you and your organization will be at the end of the year. Remember the evils of the penny-wise/pound-foolish combination and try to avoid them when possible. Surpluses accrued in January and February can be safely spent by spring, as long as you don't rack up enormous deficits.

At some point in the fall, you might pick up a new part-time freelance gig that will take you in a wildly new direction if you let it. This new direction doesn't have to come from freelancing, nor does it have to be followed for any length of time. Listen to your gut and figure out what's really best for you in light of your long-range career goals, but don't think twice about revising those goals if you think they're off base. By the time winter is past and you're looking back on 2006, you will see that every time you said no to an opportunity, you made way for others to follow -- and that every time you said yes, you found something unexpected.