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The Career Clinic: Eight Simple Rules for Finding Work You Love

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If you learn by stories, this career book is for you. From failure to success, from boredom and burnout to passion, Maureen Anderson has captured stories of people who took the road less traveled, and oh what a journey they are on!
This book reads like armchair adventure, because it is. You can learn how to get the courage to walk away from a job which is getting you down and onto an uncertain career path which will put a smile on your face.
From her years doing radio interviews on The Career Clinic, Anderson has gleaned eight guidelines that her successful people have followed, and these eight rules of career success are the divisions in the book.
If there is anything I would change, it is that the eight rules referred to in the title are sometimes overshadowed by the dynamic tales told by the interviewees. Several times, I had to flip back in the book to find out which rule a story illustrated. But I'm not sure it is a flaw to have such exciting people unfolding in the pages of this book.
As a career counselor, I'm aware that my clients have too few models before them in how to walk away from the security of a good-paying job and into a life of uncertainty and joy. We don't see enough of it. But here they are - folks who have done it and are so glad they did.
Need a dose of enthusiasm, energy, inspiration? Here it is.
Buy this for that gifted someone in your life who needs to be reminded to go for it - that now is the time.

This book was a wake up call. We all keep making excuses for not doing what we love, what defines us best, what makes us happy. It is always something that other people can do, something that we can do next year, or the year after, or if things were different, of if our child was older, or more settled, or. . . the list has a thousand fill-ins. The point is---it is not too late, at 30 or 50 or 50 or 60 to tackle what it is that we fear and require and long for and are here to do in the few years that we have to do them within.

Maureen Anderson's book was a short, impactful and motivating read. Both my husband and I laughed and cried while reading it and are actually making real life changes because of what we read in her book. So many diverse stories of so many different ways to create meaning in our all too short time on the planet. Thanks, Maureen for putting your life force and passion and spirit into your mission to give people a reason to believe that they can choose joyfulness and real purpose instead of dread or fear as an everyday reality.

This Spring I am planning to give this book to both new graduates and old graduates and to sit back and see what unfolds. Wish that I had had this book 30 years ago but I am glad to have it now instead of a year from now. A good read.

Behind a very evocative tittle is a light content full of personal stories. I was surprised to see that there is hardly no imput from the author. The 8 simple rules, are 8 simple titles, but there is no reasoning behind. I was expecting much more. I was expecting a more professional and detailed work by Maureen Anderson. I did not find it usefull at all.

A few years ago, I made a major career shift. I knew what I had to do and how to do it. What I didn't have was inspiration and support from others who also made major career shifts. How much easier it would have been if I'd had Maureen Anderson's book! If you are thinking of changing careers, or are being forced to by the current economic situation, take heart, and read this book.

Let's face it - we don't inherit great jobs from great genes. We have to work at finding work and some people are better at finding the work they love. The Career Clinic will inspire you to keep your career dreams in focus as it reveals the success stories of the hot dog salesman, the "radical careerist", and the Frank Sinatra impersonator, among others!

I'm the one always dreaming of becoming something else, of becoming a better person, of doing more in this world, of leaving my mark! This book inspired me to do all of the above! It shows the rest of us that all of those things we dream about doing, can really be done! This will be THE book that everyone on my list gets for Christmas this year. It doesn't only apply to those changing careers, or needing career advice. Rather, it's a great read that will inspire you and make you feel good!

I read this book just 6 weeks after leaving my job of 12 years. It reaffirmed my belief that quitting was the best thing I did for myself. It isn't easy taking the unknown path but it sure is freeing and enlightening. The people in this book all dared to do something different for themselves and to go out on a limb so to speak. All are happier and better off. This is not to say it is easy. And yet it is crucial to make life changing decisons so that those decisions can really change our life.
Since making a career change myself, I have really noticed how many people complain about their jobs and wish things were different. All of those people will be getting this book as a gift in hopes that it inspires them to just make the choice to be happy.