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Unhappy at work? Try anti-career path [Business -USATODAY]
In Fire Your Boss, Stephen Pollan - a New York-based attorney, life coach and author of Die Broke and Second Acts -teams with Mark Levine to try to radically rattle how people think about work.
They envision a day when people meet each other on the street and ask each other about their lives, not their jobs. "It's a romantic approach," says Pollan, 75. "It idealizes life rather than work."
If you dislike your job, your boss (or both), live in fear of being fired, gripe that you aren't making enough money or are just entering or re-entering the workforce, the authors want you to try their anti-career strategy. It's not a quick fix.
The heart of the message: The only way to survive is to work for the money. You're not your job. Careers are passé. Once you accept that, you're free to find satisfaction in your personal life. You might argue that you spend such a chunk of your life at work that you need to love your job. Poppycock, the authors say. There's no such thing as job security or reward for loyal service. People work hundreds more hours a year than they did in 1979 with far less to show for it. Hardly anyone climbs the corporate ladder. Temps and outsourcing are the future of Corporate America.
Pollan and Levine have a seven-step program for how to change your mind-set about work. The first step: "Fire your boss ... and hire yourself." more..
They envision a day when people meet each other on the street and ask each other about their lives, not their jobs. "It's a romantic approach," says Pollan, 75. "It idealizes life rather than work."
If you dislike your job, your boss (or both), live in fear of being fired, gripe that you aren't making enough money or are just entering or re-entering the workforce, the authors want you to try their anti-career strategy. It's not a quick fix.
The heart of the message: The only way to survive is to work for the money. You're not your job. Careers are passé. Once you accept that, you're free to find satisfaction in your personal life. You might argue that you spend such a chunk of your life at work that you need to love your job. Poppycock, the authors say. There's no such thing as job security or reward for loyal service. People work hundreds more hours a year than they did in 1979 with far less to show for it. Hardly anyone climbs the corporate ladder. Temps and outsourcing are the future of Corporate America.
Pollan and Levine have a seven-step program for how to change your mind-set about work. The first step: "Fire your boss ... and hire yourself." more..
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