Inspiration for Escaping Your Career

Are you stuck in a career?

Are you really stuck, or do you just feel stuck? And how do you know the difference?

Before dooming yourself to another decade of insurance underwriting (or whatever your current line of work may be) just because it's what you know, pick up Joshua Piven's The Escape Artists.

I read about this book in a post from Knowledge@WP Carey. Those of you who have been reading life@work for a while know that I am constantly looking for specific stories of people who have made successful and unlikely career changes.

This book is manna from heaven for me! And it may be for you, too.

Too many of us believe that career choices we make in our twenties create a stone path from which we may not deviate. Of course certain doors close as we make certain choices. Your career in professional baseball isn't going to happen. It may be too late for you to play the ingenue.

But people are figuring out ways to do something different. It may take a while, and it may take great sacrifice and mean big changes. It may not be easy at all.

Your particular career change trail may be for you alone to blaze. You might be out there with your machete, hacking away at the brush, wondering if you're going to see something worthwhile on the other side.

That's when you pick up this book. It features the stories of 10 "regular" people (i.e., not billionaires or celebrities) and their extraordinary career changes. All of them had passions that they turned into paychecks.

What do you wish you could get paid to do?

Heather Mundell
Dream Big Coaching Services
www.dreambigcoaching.com
heather@dreambigcoaching.com