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Entries from June 2009

How Best-Selling Author Pam Slim Started Her Blog to Balance Her Life and Dreams

June 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Pam Slim has just published Escape from Cubicle Nation based on her hugely popular blog of the same name. Pam’s work focuses on helping corporate employees start their own businesses. [Side note: I highly recommend this book if you are considering making the move] In the first excerpt from our interview, Pam explains how she […]

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Tags: Corporate Jobs · Entrepreneur · Mid-Life Career Change

How to know when you have outgrown your job: Lessons from a Rock Star (plus a special invitation)

June 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Do you ever get a feeling that your job has lost its luster? A job that used to motivate you now requires you to get yourself pumped up before you do it? Check out what I learned at a No Doubt concert this weekend - how to know when you have outgrown your work. Watch […]

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Tags: Career Advice · Career Change · Meaningful Work · Mid-Life Career Change

Find Out What the 20% of People Who are Passionate About Work Know That You Don’t

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Photo courtesy Joshua Rappeneker Want to do something different, but can't figure out what it is? Or how to do more meaningful work without jeopardizing your lifestyle? Join me for a special tele-class this Wednesday night, June 10th at 5pm ET: Don't wait to test-drive your dreams (How to start now without quitting your job). […]

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Tags: Career Advice · Career Change · Meaningful Work · Mid-Life Career Change