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
by Pamela Skillings
from Ballantine Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• 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... more info

• 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.

• 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... more info

• 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.... more info

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