Escape from Corporate America

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on June 2, 2008  
Filed Under Careers, Current Reading

You will search far and wide to find someone who doesn’t hate their job. Yes, the majority of us truly hate what we do, and only continue working because we can’t afford not to. Pamela Skillings looks at people in that predicament and offers them a way out in her book Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams. It’s a well-written book that should give you all the help you need to start making choices and decisions to change your current situation.

Skillings lays out the reasons why you may not be satisfied with your corporate existence. Sometimes it’s due to burnout, sometimes to disillusionment, or even due to reorganisations that have relegated you to working for the boss from hell. Whatever the case, getting to the core of your dissatisfaction is key to figuring out how to correct it. Once that’s established, she then explores the potential options that you might want to explore.

The final part of the book wraps everything up with a realistic expectation of what you’ll feel when you’ve made the decision to pull the trigger… fear. Often that fear keeps people from taking that final step. With Skillings’s help, you can see that for what it is and act accordingly.

Full of success stories from dozens of corporate escape artists, practical strategies and fun-to-follow exercises, Escape from Corporate America will help disgruntled office workers everywhere find more meaningful, fulfilling careers.

As normal these days, the book is supported by an interesting blog.


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