Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams

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	Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams Pamela Skillings Ballantine Books, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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Does your corporate career leave you stressed out, burned out, or just plain bummed out? You?re not alone. The good news is that there?s a way out?and you?re holding it. Written by career expert and corporate escapee Pamela Skillings, Escape from Corporate America inspires the cubicle-bound and the corner-office-cornered to break free and create the career of their dreams?without going broke. With no-nonsense advice and unflagging humor, Skillings shows you how to

? assess your job?s ?suck? factor?from terminal boredom to boss from hell
? identify your true calling?brainstorm fantasy careers and test-drive your dream jobs
? develop your Escape Plan?set goals, figure out your timing, and evaluate your finances and health insurance options
? find jobs that don?t bite?entrepreneurial corporate environments, energetic start-ups, the nonprofit sector, and flexible work options
? be your own boss?explore entrepreneurship and freelancing, assemble an advisory team, and start a business while you collect a paycheck
? follow your creative dreams?learn how to make time for your artistic passion and develop a plan to quit your day job
? overcome any obstacle?deal with fear, doubt, negative people, and other bumps along the road

Plus, Skillings shares success stories from dozens of corporate escape artists, including celebrity TV chef Andrea Beaman, Cranium CEO Richard Tait, and many others.

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

Praise for Escape from Corporate America
"With insight and humor, Skillings enumerates the stages of ?Corporate Disillusionment? and the features of the ?toxic workplace??the bullying bosses, moronic co-workers, ?terminal boredom? and rampant racism and sexism. A multitude of questionnaires, exercises and worksheets helps readers determine their dream job, assess expenses and assets, and plot an escape plan to break free of corporate life without going bankrupt....Vignettes of successful fugitives from the corporate world populate the book and an extremely useful ?Escape Tool Kit? supplies information on where and how to find career coaches, health insurance, job listings and a wealth of other much needed resources when embarking on career change. Comprehensive, informative and witty, this book will be indispensable to those looking to start new careers with concrete plans and well-defined goals." ?Publishers Weekly

?Escape from Corporate America isn?t just the best book ever written on creating the career of your dreams -- it is the most stirring and useful book on careers that I?ve ever read. Pam Skillings inspired me first with her own story and then with stories who successfully escaped dreary, heartless, and sometimes nasty workplaces. This masterpiece will give you the skills to make the leap from a mind-numbing job to a great career and the courage to follow your heart.? ?Robert Sutton, Stanford Professor and author of The No Asshole Rule

?This book might just change your life!?
?Barbara Sher

?Pamela Skillings gives you the tools you need to take control of your career and have a more fulfilling life.?
?Beth Schoenfeldt, founder of Ladies Who Launch

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This book covers all the basic options available to someone who is tired of the rat race and wants something different.

This was a nice little book. I especially liked the cheery yellow cover. It is divided into three sections and 12 chapters as follows:

I. Plan your escape (1-4)
II. Exploring your escape routes (5-11)
III. Going over the wall (12)

1. This is not your father's job market
2. The trouble with the rat race
3. True callings and wrong numbers
4. Let's get practical
5. Corporate jobs that don't suck
6. Take a break
7. Swim in a smaller pond
8. Go solo
9. Build a business
10. Follow your creative dreams
11. Make a difference
12. Going over the wall
A. Have a nice escape
B. The escape toolkit
C. Meet the escape artists

I thought the book was well written and well organized. I liked the 5-page quiz entitled "Are you a corporate casualty? The author has invested 12 years in corporate America. And then she bailed. She now operates her own consulting shop. She says she spent 3 years talking to 200+ people in order to research this book. And it shows. The book's content makes sense, sounds like it has been well researched, and provides value to anyone who is thinking of following the author's lead and "escaping."

Since I am a SCORE (Senior Corps of Retired Executives) counselor who helps members of this book's target audience on a daily basis, my favorite chapters were 8, 9, and 12. Those are the topics I usually discuss with my SCORE clients. But this book covers all the basic options available to someone who is tired of the rat race and wants something different. 5 stars!

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A well-written, well-researched book with great personal stories. Escaping corporate America is a hot topic, and this is a hot book. Read it. Enjoy it.

Excellent career-changing advice with good humor

Pam's approach to escaping corporate America is realistic, direct, and is almost as if she's walking you through the process while standing right next to you and making sure you tackle every step without any obstacles. Her approach is extremely practical and doesn't even need to be read by the corporate worker; anyone looking for some sort of job change (or even a book for leisure reading) will get ideas and inspiration from Skillings's detailed writeup of how you can take charge of your career, find happiness, and pursue your dreams.

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A Breath of Fresh Air for the Future Entrepreneur!

This book not only provides stories on real people who have escaped, it is a wealth of on-line information. It definitely inspired me to consider hanging up my corporate hat. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever felt that they didn't belong in the corporate world but were too afraid to try something different.

A useful toolbox for making the change you want

"Escape from Corporate America" doesn't have the glitz and personality, the audacity and intensity, the big dream and the big promise, of Tim Ferriss' The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, a book I found both inspirational and thought-provoking. On the other hand, "Escape..." is a good deal more practical, in that while Ferriss sort of glossed over the part about setting up a stand-alone business that generates thousands of dollars with little or no effort, Pamela Skillings leaves nothing to chance in helping you decide whether "escaping" is right for you, and if so, how to do it.

Leaving a job, even an unhappy one, is no small matter, and if the reader takes nothing else from "Escape from Corporate America," it would be that you need to give that the hard work and planning such a change deserves. Whether you're burned out, bored, or just vaguely unsatisfied, this book serves many of the functions of a professional "lifestyle coach" (at a fraction of the price). From helping you get to the bottom of why exactly you're unhappy with your current situation ... to showing you how to identify alternatives and weigh the pros and cons ... to helping you tell the boss you're leaving without burning any bridges, there's a lot of useful information packed into these pages. She even gives you seven pages of financial-planning worksheets to help ensure you have a clear picture of what you'll need -- and what you don't need -- as you make the big shift.

The dream of escaping corporate America takes as many forms as there are people to have the dream, of course, and Skillings has something to offer a wide variety of dreamers. Whether you're an entrepreneur who wants to conquer the business world as your own boss rather than someone else's wage slave ... or poet, artist, or musician who took a straight job to pay the bills and discovered with a shock that you now have a decade-long career you never counted on, I think this book can go a long way toward helping you start achieving what you're looking for. That might not be tangos in Argentina à la Tim Ferriss ... but even if it is, you need to start somewhere and "Escape from Corporate America" may help give you the tools you need to achieve what you want.

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