- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books (Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0142002488
- ISBN-13: 978-0142002483
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.5 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 947,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Paul Tieger, author of Do What You Are
A must-read for anyone who is working and feeling dissatisfied, unfulfilled or unhappy with their current work situation.
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A disturbingly large number of people today are unhappy with their work. In this helpful book, career coach Julie Jansen addresses this work-dissatisfaction epidemic. Using career assessment quizzes and personality exercises, Jansen helps readers understand their present work or career situation, discover the type of work for which they're best suited, and learn how to create the changes they need. Filled with real-life examples and including a useful resource section, this guide provides the inspiration and know-how to implement positive career change.
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A great book to help you focus on your true needs and find what trully inspires you... helping to define the aspects about you that are required to keep you in a career that you trully feel satisfied. Its an interactive book that will require you to complete short tests, it will provide you with insight as to what you trully want out fo a job/career- including your own self!.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Not a book I could get on with.
Plenty of user interaction via little tests. No doubt if taken seriously this book would help you focus on getting more of what you want out of life.
Plenty of user interaction via little tests. No doubt if taken seriously this book would help you focus on getting more of what you want out of life.
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219 of 223 people found the following review helpful
Great resource for the mid-life career crisis....
25 Sep 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Ever looked around at what you're doing at work and wondered how on earth you got to this awful place where you hate getting out of bed in the morning? Ever feel like there's something about your so-called 'successful career' that makes you feel vaguely rotten inside? Feel like what you really wanted to be when you grew up got lost somewhere along the way?
Through a series of exercises, Julie Jensen helps you rediscover your values and passions, and to see why where you are right now is so frustrating. This book isn't about finding a job, it's more about defining yourself and seeing where you shine and where you don't.
She categorizes people 'stuck' in their careers into six types (Where's the Meaning, Been there, Done that, Need the Money, Bored and Plateaued, Bruised and Gunshy, One Toe in the Retirement Pool), and then works through specific exercises to help those archetypes set goals that will move them towards more connection in their life.
The book is nice in that it isn't all about having to be an entrepreneur to be happy. Most find-yourself-through-your-career books push entrepreneurship really hard and completely devalidate the whole work concept. Jensen suggests that working for someone else is fine, but making sure your needs are met is important. Many books about career change are horribly vague about how to figure out what you want to do. Jensen provides concrete exercises and examples of how people applied what they learned.
The biggest problem I had was trying to fit myself into an archetype, since I honestly fit into three or four of them. But everything in the book is useful, even if you may not immediately think it applies to your situation.
265 of 284 people found the following review helpful
I Do Know What I Want, And It Is For You To Read This Book
1 Mar 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is THE book you MUST read if you are a victim of a layoff or pondering "What do I truly want to do with the rest of my work life?". As a maniacal researcher and reader, I bought and borrowed dozens of job search/career change books; none came close to the results I achieved from Julie Jansen's step-by-step, no-nonsense guide.
Within 3 weeks of completing this book, I am now employed in my dream job; a job that came true because of the many exercises that are used in "I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This."
Ms. Jansen's guide will have you writing notes to yourself, staying up late dreaming about the life you really want to have, and getting up early to implement the suggestions that are found througout this classic book.
Do yourself a huge favor: stop searching the web, stop browsing at the bookstore, and simply order this book NOW!
P.S. As part of my severance package, I worked with a world-famous outplacement firm. This book was so responsible for my successful career change, that I strongly advised the outplacement firm to make Julie's book mandatory reading for all new clients!
82 of 88 people found the following review helpful
Basic basic basic
1 Mar 2006
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Most of the material in this book is obvious, trivial, or both. Whatever is left has been better covered even in "starter" career books like What Color Is Your Parachute.
I bought this together with several other career change books, including Is Your Genius at Work (Dick Richards), Working Identity (Herminia Ibarra), Finding Your North Star (Martha Beck), and Do What You Are (Paul & Barbara Tieger). I Don't Know What I Want was the only disappointment. The assessment section is a joke, while the advice for individuals with different motivations to change careers appears to be written at an introductory level more suitable to somebody who's starting their first career (in which case see my comment above about What Color Is Your Parachute). All the other books I've mentioned provide either an in-depth method of self-assessment helpful in developing a plan of action, or information about the job search process that hasn't been published in popular magazines; some of them provide both.
It's not worth the bother to return it, but I don't see myself keeping it around or recommending it to friends.
I bought this together with several other career change books, including Is Your Genius at Work (Dick Richards), Working Identity (Herminia Ibarra), Finding Your North Star (Martha Beck), and Do What You Are (Paul & Barbara Tieger). I Don't Know What I Want was the only disappointment. The assessment section is a joke, while the advice for individuals with different motivations to change careers appears to be written at an introductory level more suitable to somebody who's starting their first career (in which case see my comment above about What Color Is Your Parachute). All the other books I've mentioned provide either an in-depth method of self-assessment helpful in developing a plan of action, or information about the job search process that hasn't been published in popular magazines; some of them provide both.
It's not worth the bother to return it, but I don't see myself keeping it around or recommending it to friends.
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