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The phrase "as a second career" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a new profession or occupation that someone takes on after having established a different primary career.
Example: "After spending twenty years in finance, she decided to pursue her passion for art as a second career."
Alternatives: "in a new profession" or "as a new vocation".
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"I see it as a second career," Clijsters said.
Like many of her competitors, Ms. Gamble came to baking as a second career.
And you also have retirees and people as a second career.
Amis obviously shouldn't take up political forecasting as a second career.
He is super-energetic, producing as a second career a crop of bestselling books.
Dailey, 58, is aware that other senior professionals like him are choosing interim management as a second career.
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She sees painting as part of a second career as she prepares to retire from touring.
In the US, cops and lawyers are almost as likely as sports stars to have a second career as a TV pundit.
A: Well, my transition into physics wasn't so much a career change as it was a second career.
The son of a wealthy Baule chief, Houphouët-Boigny worked as a rural doctor and pursued a second career as a wealthy planter.
Steven A. Shaw is identified by his publishers as a former attorney who began a second career as a food and restaurant critic in 1997.
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