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    I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work
    I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work
    I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work
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    I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work

    Written by Julie Jansen

    Narrated by Margaret Strom

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    THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO KICK-STARTING A CAREER YOU LOVE IN ANY JOB MARKET

    THERE IS AN EPIDEMIC IN THIS COUNTRY, one that continues to spread despite fluctuations in the economy. A dishearteningly large number of people dislike what they do for a living. In this revised and updated edition of I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This, career coach Julie Jansen shows how anyone unhappy with their employment-or lack of-can implement a real and satisfying career transformation. A range of quizzes and personality exercises help you to identify the type of work for which you're best suited, and then, using real-life examples and a useful resource guide, Jansen shows you how to transform even a period of crisis into an opportunity, providing the inspiration and know-how to effect positive change.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateJul 28, 2010
    ISBN9781596596214
    I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work

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    • 2/5
      From my Cannonball Read 6 Review...

      Hmmm. I can’t tell if this is a bad book, or just isn’t the book that I wanted or needed it to be. I’m in the midst of a bit of a self-improvement kick (and my books this year will likely reflect that), and bought this one during one of my many ill-advised book store visits. It looked interesting, and even seemed to offer suggestions for people like me, who have ‘good’ jobs but just feel like they might be in the wrong career and are looking for something different.

      The book starts with a whole lot of self-assessment. Some of it is really interesting and some of it seems to require a whole lot of self-reflection that could mean the book could take a reader months to get through. Some of it feels like a glorified Cosmo quiz, but some of it really did get me thinking about what I want out of the work I do to make money, and what I need to do to get there.

      After sixty pages of self-assessments, worksheets and quizzes, the author breaks her advice down into chapters to address common problems people who are unhappy in their work are likely to face:
      -Finding meaning in work
      -At a good point (financially) and not able to take a pay cut
      -Current very negative work environment
      -Bored
      -Desire to run a business
      -Close to retirement

      Obviously close to retirement wasn’t really applicable to me, but the rest did, at times, apply to how I’ve felt about my career over the past few years, so I read through them. Each was filled with some more quizzes and attempts at forcing self-reflection, but I think the book tried to be all things to all people and so ended up not giving me enough to work with in any given area. I think it did help me sort through my thoughts on starting my own business, as well as my desire to have a job that makes a difference in people’s lives, but I didn’t finish reading it with any sort of concrete action plan. Maybe that’s on me, or maybe it’s on the book, but either way I can’t really recommend this to anyone who is struggling with where to go in their career.

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    • 4/5
      A great book for the seasoned professional who wakes up and realizes she wants something...different. Jansen looks at the most common reasons for deciding you "need a change" - that your job no longer has meaning, that you're bored and don't see more challenges ahead, that you've suffered a job loss or been kicked around by your employer, that you yearn to start your own business, or that you really want to be retired. Each of these chapters contains exercises to get at the heart of what you're looking for, and both the chapters and the end of the book contain extensive suggestions for books and web sites to provide even more information. The book is easy to read and is a wonderful addition to professional job coaching, as well as worth reading on its own to help you make your next career move a satisfying one.