Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations (Paperback)

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Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations provides guidance for all those "organizationally averse" individuals who want to gain courage to escape the corporate world so that they don't have to spend the rest of their lives trapped working in a cubicle. This revolutionary career book challenges and inspires people to create their own dream job or operate an unconventional business with which they can make a great living.

Career Success Without a Real Job will also appeal to retirees and the soon-to-be retirees who would like to keep working at a non-traditional "fun job" not associated with a corporation.

Positive, lively, and captivating, this career guide is designed to help ambitious and creative people live an extraordinary lifestyle that is the envy of the corporate world!

Above all, Career Success Without a Real Job provides practical tips and inspiration for innovative and motivated individuals looking to escape the rat race and make a good living on their own terms.

From the Publisher

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is the second edition of this book, which was first called Real Success Without a Real Job: There Is No Life Like It. The only major change is a completely revised Chapter 7, now titled The Work Model for People Too Prosperous to Do Mornings. The revised chapter deals with how to create intellectual property that provides residual income for years -- even when you are asleep!

These are the topics in the new Chapter 7:

• The Unquestioned Quest for Corporate Success Is an Idiot's Journey at Best
• You Don't Have to Be Able to Walk on Water to Make Money While You Sleep
• Becoming an Internet Marketing Genius Is a Lot Easier than You Think
• Do It Badly -- But at Least Do It!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Visions Int'l / Zelinski; Revised edition (March 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580089674
• ISBN-13: 978-1580089678
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #230,728 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blew me away..., May 9, 2009

By	Dan - See all my reviews

This book is BLOWING ME AWAY! Get out of the corporate world NOW!

Chapter 1. "Life without a real job will set you free."
I underlined a sentence, "Working at something just for the money is something fearful people do. It is a sign of their lack of self-confidence in their ability, talent, and creativity to earn money doing something they enjoy." Wow. But what if you make a LOT of money. A few paragraphs down, "There can be no doubt that getting trapped in to believing that money is the most important thing in a job increases your chances of being trapped in a miserable job for the rest of your life." Double wow. In our overly materialistic society, we think that money will solve everything, even a dis-satisfying career. I got an idea, I hate my job, let's just get promoted, make more money, and it will take care of the fact that I hate my job. Brilliant. NOT!

Chapter 2. Unreal jobs -- so many worlds; what to do.

The first part of this chapter stopped me in my tracks (at least my eyes in their tracks). Business Week surveyed successful American business executives about their job. 72% where not in their dream job. They named things like they wanted to be a chef, golf pro, rock star, bed-and-breakfast-inn owner/operator. Here's what stops me in my tracks. These guys have the RESOURCES TO DO THEIR DREAM JOBS, BUT MORE MONEY WON'T SEEM TO LEAD THEM DOWN THEIR DREAM PATH. What is holding these guys back? They didn't "choose wisely", to quote the Matrix. And they are paying for it.

I like his list "100 of the coolest unreal jobs." I put tic marks next to many of them as something I would like to pursue.

Chapter 7, "The work model for people to prosperous to do mornings" was the one I went straight to when I first got the book. This chapter talks about making money on the internet. I found it very informative, and Ernie gives lots of examples of people who have made good money on the i-net.

Overall, this book gives you a boost in changing your thinking about the corporate world. Your thinking will never be the same again.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Jewel In The Crown Of My Library, April 27, 2009

By	Oliver Luke Delorie (Kelowna, B.C.) - See all my reviews

Career Success Without A Real Job is easily Ernie's best book, if only because the author's cumulative work and life experience have honed his social commentary skills and knack for telling it like it is.

In this book, he has chosen not to rest on his laurels, but to inspire us with another dose of how delicious creating our own realities can be, and how with a little ingenuity and passion, we can not only afford - but also thrive - in our new found freedom from the daily grind. Mr. Zelinski has again answered the call in this book, and given truly sane people another collectible to add to their libraries.

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5.0 out of 5 stars FREEDOM, July 10, 2009

By	Roland Mucha (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Just finished it and now I'm going to apply it. See you on the other side Ernie. Thanks :)

ps. Anyone out there in the corporate world who want's a way out, must read this book.