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Summary: The Best There Is For Determining Right Livilihood!!
Review: As a Career and Business Start Up Coach/ Consultant I help people through the often rocky road to self employment. Now I don't have to do it alone! This remarkable book by Paul and Sarah Edwards is a must have. It once again proves why everyone else models their work. They are without question the nations experts on Self Employment. This book will motivate, inspire, spark your creativity, stretch your mind, and help you clarify your perfect work. It also provides great practical information and resources. I've seen first hand the benefits people get from this book. Believe me, if you follow this process you will arrive at successful self employment! I highly recommend this book to everyone. Especially if you, or someone you know, has ever had a dream or a passion and just can't see how you might make a living from it. Gift yourself with this one. You'll never regret it!
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Summary: Finding the Perfect Con
Review: Finding Your Perfect Work suggests a practicle guide to job hunting success. What it delievers is a foggy motivational speech urging Zen like techinques for finding your inner self. While it may be inspirational to learn that a middle aged man with a MBA can open his own business it will not prove helpful to a tewenty year old trying to escape K-mart. This book offers many worksheet to help guide the reader to find his or her perfect work. It does not offer any guidence when none of the worksheets has any revelance to the person's actual job experience. This makes Finding Your Perfect a cruel waste of time for those desperately seeking a solution to the massive corproate lay offs of Spring 2001. If you feel the need for emergizing stories of success you would be better off reading Chicken Soup for the Soul. For help seeking a job, avoid this one.
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Summary: Maybe useful for the non-professional or second careers
Review: I just completed this book and was disappointed and wished I would have spent the time I wasted on this book in a more useful manner (sleeping would have been more practical for me). This book is geared toward the non-professional, someone looking for a second income, for the stay at home spouse, or retired person. It was not helpful for me. I am an advanced degreed, highly paid professional looking for a serious career that will also support my single lifestyle and associated bills. I do not have the luxury of a spouse or other income to support me while is find my dream. Oh well, maybe I will find inspiration elsewhere.
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Summary: Very helpful material
Review: I think this book really helps you to locate your true interests and focus in on what you are looking for. It has definitely helped me in my Shaklee business. Get out there and start in; work from home. You can do it! I did.
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Summary: Discover You Truly Are!
Review: If you thinking about becoming a free agent or one already, this is a great book on the choices and opportunities open to you. The worksheets in the book are useful in the discovery of your self. With numerous profiles, you can mix and match to come out with ideas and possibilities of variants of conventional work and jobs to some unthought of products or services you could provide. Even, if you are not thinking about changing vocation, the book is worth a read for ideas and possibilities for personal development and growth. You would be surprised at what you will unearth about your capabilities, your gifts, your assets and your passion. It's a kind of book you'd stick on your personal book next to "What Colour Is Your Parachute?". Get the idea - both are 'work support' books!
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Summary: Great book for the new bootstrapper or home-based business
Review: Many looking to start their own business are searching for an easy How-To, without any regards to what they really want and need to fulfill their life. This book makes you examine what motivates you and lets you find out for yourself what would be your "Perfect Work." There are no shortcuts to success and this book makes you think and plan out your own path. If you are looking to seriously consider creating a life-style that lets you control your own career, then buy this book!
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Summary: Inspired Writing...
Review: This is the best book in the Edwards' stable. The other books really didn't stand out from the pack. This one is inspirational and filled with stories of folks just like the rest of us who found their perfect work. Finding Your Perfect Work is thought AND action provoking - definately one to be read again and again. I hope they can continue in this way and move away from the formula home business how-to type of books.
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Summary: Practical advice on figuring out work for self-employment
Review: This is the first book that I've found which focuses on figuring out possibilities for self-employment without basing it mostly on what work you have done in the past. Requires a willingness for self-assessment. Very helpful read in combination with "Changing Directions Without Losing Your Way" by the same authors. There is some overlap between this book and others by these authors, exactly the same stories and advice.
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Summary: Practical advice on figuring out work for self-employment
Review: This is the first book that I've found which focuses on figuring out possibilities for self-employment without basing it mostly on what work you have done in the past. Requires a willingness for self-assessment. Very helpful read in combination with "Changing Directions Without Losing Your Way" by the same authors. There is some overlap between this book and others by these authors, exactly the same stories and advice.
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Summary: Helping to bridge the career/personal life gap
Review: Through a series of thoughtful exercises, this book helps you take inventory. What are your interests, talents, experiences, education, style, priorities, gifts, and passions? How can you combine them to create a career that reflects you better than any job you've ever had? This book guides you to the answer. This is not a book that gives you a test and tells you that, based on the results, you should be a plumber. Instead it shows you how to create your own toolbox of skills and interests, offers plenty of suggestions and examples, and encourages you to find the right path to your ideal career. This book guided me through a successful career change, and I have recommended it to several friends considering the same.
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