The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide: The Inner Path to Finding Your Work in the World [Unabridged, Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Rick Jarow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2004

The perennial wisdom teachings tell us that your vocation is not a means of survival in the world-it is a pure expression of your life force. Vocation arises not as a response to external forces, but authentically from within your own body. The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide is the first audio curriculum that adapts this classic approach to right livelihood to the challenges unique to our place and time. Since 1988, this life-changing workshop by Dr. Rick Jarow has helped thousands of frustrated job-seekers open to their intuition, transform their values into action, and answer their true calling-instead of just settling for a paycheck. What is an "anti-career"? It is a manifestation of the unique blueprint for your destiny encoded in your body since birth. The key to this revolutionary approach is your body's chakra system, the seven centers that govern the free flow of prana, or life force, through your body. Through a program of powerful meditations, you gain direct access to your chakras, clearing and aligning them with the energetic forces that make everything in life possible. You don't have to go out looking for a job, Dr. Jarow teaches. The job you were born to do will unfold in time, like a tree from a seed, as you let go of self-limiting concepts and open to the energy of creation-with The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

In this tape, Jarow provides an "anticareer" program designed to help job-seekers discover and implement their vocation, to assist them in finding methods to identify their life's work, something they love, rather than just pursuing a career. He firmly believes that by performing the work that one feels called upon to do, one serves the world in the best way one can. Throughout the series, Jarow stresses that it is better to sweep floors for an organization in which one believes in rather than being an executive for a firm in which one can't believe. The author, a visiting professor at Vassar University, presents a formidable array of techniques for users, drawing upon a range of resources, including modern psychology and business models, meditation and guided imagery techniques, and East Indian and Native American spiritual practices. Jarow is an interesting speaker, using examples from his own life and from his counseling practice to demonstrate how the listener may employ the techniques discussed. However, a background in the various New Age concepts, particularly the chakra system, will definitely assist listeners. Highly recommended for all career collections and for public and school libraries serving patrons who are interested in life advice based on religion. Kathleen A. Sullivan, Phoenix P.L.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Book Description

According to the perennial wisdom teachings, vocation is not a means of survival in the world--it is a pure expression of your life force. The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide is the first audio curriculum which adapts this classic approach to right livelihood to the challenges unique to our place and time. Based on the popular anti-career workshops taught by Dr. Rick Jarow since 1988, this is the same life-changing program which has helped thousands of frustrated jobseekers. With him, listeners will learn how the job they were born to do will unfold in time, like a tree from a seed, as they let go of self-limiting concepts and open to the energy of creation. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated; Unabridged edition (February 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591791464
• ISBN-13: 978-1591791461
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,094,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I recommend the audio tapes over the paperback..., July 19, 2003

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sasha_ (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide (Audio Cassette)

I bought "Creating the Work You Love" about a year ago. It clicked with me. He's writing for people who come to life from a spiritual perspective, and have grown fairly skillful at that side of life, but are awkwardly deficient in the nitty gritty of reality. Jarow understands that the nitty gritty is also spiritual, and so he approaches the good old question of jobs and career from a wise and spiritual place, plucking examples inspirations from both Eastern and Western ancient traditions (although he organizes the process through the system of the chakras), but also from history and popular culture and his own life and counseling practice.

But I had a hard time focusing on the book. It's full of meditation exercises, which can be hard to take from text into meditation. Also, I never felt like I was sufficiently "done" with a chapter--after all, when have you ever done enough connecting to "abundance"? So I would recommend the audio tapes over the book.You can listen to it again and again, focused and meditating deeply, or absentmindedly, or in a more rationally conscious state. It speaks to all three states.

Personally, I know where I want to be in, say, five years. But I'm still struggling and dragging my feet about the short term necessities. And Jarow's approach helps connect the unglamorous aspects of the job search with the nourishing and challenging spiritual work that I'm more comfortable with.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Key to anyone considering a career change, July 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide (Audio Cassette)

Rick goes well beyond the typical carreer change guides and focuses on what you want at a fundamental level. He uses the Indian 7 chakras model as a guide to understanding your purpose and freeing your energy. Don't just take another job. Find the one that you were born for. He tells you how to understand it, how to pursue it, and how to align all you do.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Alternative to Conventional "Job Hunting", August 16, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide (Audio Cassette)

Rick Jarow provides a much-needed alternative to the conventional "write a winning resume" and "knock 'em dead in your job interview" approach to finding a livelihood. Most career seekers are told to HUNT for a job -- i.e., use the hunter-gatherer model to find a position that just happens to be open at the specific time you are looking for a job. Once you've bagged yourself a job, then you are expected to mold yourself to fit the parameters your new employer wants you to fit into. Jarow advocates an more organic approach where finding a job is an outgrowth of creating a life that is right for you. As you associate with people/organizations whose values resonate with you, you will eventually connect with people who can steer you towards work that fits YOU. It is the difference between showing off a series of stuffed, mounted trophies on a wall as opposed to a lush, colorful garden you've cultivated yourself to represent your life's work.