Snap, Crackle or Stop: Change Your Career and Create Your Destiny - Softcover

Quinn, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843040077 ISBN 13: 9781843040071

Publisher: Pearson Education Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Thinking about being somewhere else...something else? More and more people are. But for most, that dramatic career change remains just a wishful idea. This is the book that looks at where you are in your career state, and what it takes to make the leap to something completely different. Dramatic career change has never been more exciting - or more possible. Increasingly people are looking for purpose in their lives, to find a way of earning money while doing what they feel they should be doing. It's about finding a line of work that uses your talent, makes you feel fulfilled and feel you are doing the right thing. Yet for many people it's still a terrifying prospect. Especially if the 'right thing' turns out to be a completely different direction from your current job. Whether you've snapped or whether you are crackling with discontent, this book helps you evaluate your current career state and find the path to becoming the master of your own destiny. It uses the experience of people f

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara  Quinn is a senior partner of CAIL Consulting Group Inc., based in Canada. She is a frequent conference presenter and known for being passionate and provocative.

She has always been fascinated by people who have made dramatic career changes and the factors that took them to their destiny. Seeking out and interviewing the people who are the substance of this book has been a mission in Barb's life for a number of years.

From Publishers Weekly:

Quinn's snappy (and, dare we say, crackling?) little guide to doing a 180 on your job path brims with optimism and reassurance, coaching unhappy workers to "master your own destiny." Part of Perseus' Momentum Series, the book attempts to help readers understand what career stage they're in-are they snapping, crackling, or ready to stop?-and offer corresponding advice. Most people snap when they realize it's "time to take a turn in the path of life"; while crackling is being "relatively happy, not desperately miserable to make a change"; and stopping is, well, just that: "being frozen, suspended in never-never land." With an emphasis on finding a fulfilling job, Quinn shares stories of folks in various modes. The book seems pointed toward people who have a hard time assessing themselves and their careers, as much of the guidance focuses on staying motivated, taking things step by step and resolving to make a change. It should help anyone stuck in a snap, crackle or stop phase discover what makes them, er, pop.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1843040077
• ISBN 13: 9781843040071
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178