Review of Career Success Without a Real Job

Here is a review that I posted on Chapters Indigo website about Career Success Without a Real Job:


Just finished reading Career Success Without a Real Job. WOW! I am a fan of Zelinski's promo giveaway retirement books How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free and The Joy of Not Working", that I recommend to my clients who are about to retire.

Career Success Without a Real Job, however, is directed at the "organizationally averse" who don't like working in corporations. This career guide will of course also appeal to retirees who want to keep working part time but not in a traditional "Cor-Pirate" setting.

Zelinski in this book mentions that his writing isn't the best. That may be so but I can attest that his books are readable and offer good advice, That's the only standard that matters.

Zelinski's style is very accessible, common sense, gently coaxing without being too preachy.

While pointing out that Career Success Without a Real Job may not be for everyone, Zelinski proceeds to talk about the exciting realities that await those who dare to dream of a life lived on their own terms. This means having the freedom to decide on the hours we want to work, the amount of vacation time we want to take, with whom we want to work, and what we are going to do today.

Zelinski reminds us that real success is not measured merely by the 'almighty dollar.'

Here from the book are some "Irrefutable Signs That You Have Achieved Career Success Without a Real Job:"

You no longer know how to prepare for job interviews and don’t care that you don’t know.

• You wonder why people get up before 9:00 A.M.


• Most people with real jobs criticize or envy you.


• You rely on job ads rather than the Dilbert cartoon for your laugh of the day.


• You are always the last one to know when there is a holiday for working people and you happily work your usual four to five hours anyway.


• You don’t ever need any job references.*


• You no longer have a Daytimer because you forget to look in it after making an entry. Multitasking means working on your laptop in a coffee bar for two hours and watching attractive members of the opposite sex at the same time.


• You know what resume means but have completely forgotten what résumé means.

Above all, Career Success Without a Real Job is adventure, satisfaction, riches, and happiness all on your own terms!

But as Zelinski points out early in the book:

"The principles in this book will not work for everyone. One reason is that many people apparently don’t want freedom; they would rather be imprisoned by organizations that tell themwhat to do, when to do it, how to do it. As Lord Boyd-Orr once said, 'If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.'

"If you are one of those mundane people who would selectsandwiches over personal freedom, Career Success Without a Real Job is definitely not for you. On the other hand, if you are trapped in the corporate world as the majority is, but would like to be liberated, then the success principles in this career book can inspire and help you to create a much more rewarding lifestyle for yourself."

What Zelinski is saying is that living a life of career freedom is not easy. Indeed, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it. But if you are prepared to put in a lot of effort with inspiration, following the principles of Career Success Without a Real Job will make you envy of the corporate world.


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Here Is the Lifestyle That You Can Lead When You Follow the Success Principles of Career Success Without a Real Job

• You don't have to ever hear that awful word "teamwork" or the equally awful phrase "being a team player". As someone once said, "Teamwork is a boss telling a bunch of mindless idiots to do their work all in the same regimented way without any creativity."
  
• You no longer have to deal with jerks and idiots in the workplace; indeed, you can now enjoy a jerk-free and idiot-free environment and be highly creative in the process.
  
• No more going to a corporate office on Monday morning and hearing co-workers ask each other that mundane question "How was your weekend?" followed by answers such as "It was fine." Fact is, you never did care whether your co-workers enjoyed their weekends.

This Book Will Also Help You Retire Happy, Wild, and Free.

Success Quote of the Day

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable
the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with finer
spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.
You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
— Woodrow Wilson

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Why Retirement Rocks and Signs You Need Career Success

Some of the Reasons Why Retirement Rocks from Ernie Zelinski's New Book Called The Joy of Being Retired Coming Soon:

When you experience retirement fully, you get to achieve remarkable personal growth and higher consciousness, two elements of happiness extremely difficutl to experience in the typical workplace.

You get to find out that if you want to live a long and happy life, you must forget how old you are. Indeed, this gets more important the older you get.

Retirement allows you to get your priorities straight. No one on his or her death bed ever said, "I wish I would have spend more time in the office."

3 More Signs That You Have to Read Career Success Without a Real Job by Ernie Zelinski:

1. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you would like to simultaneously return dignity to the arts of working and loafing.

2. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if the only time you feel comfortable at work is on casual Fridays.

3. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you have had 19 jobs in the last two years and didn't have to quit any of them.

Signs That You May Just Need Career Success Without a Real Job

This revolutionary career book is for those millions of organizationally averse individuals who would like to break free of corporate life so that they have complete control over their lives. It will also benefit the millions of baby-boomer "retirees" who want to continue working, but not in a traditional corporate setting. Positive, lively, and captivating, Career Success Without a Real Job is designed to help you live an extraordinary lifestyle that is the envy of the corporate world — there is no life like it!

Here are some more signs that you may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job:

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you have on a résumé listed “Having a good time” under Hobbies.

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your present company is "making me a scapegoat - just like my three previous employers."

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if in your last job you over stepped your job duties by cashing employees' paychecks.

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if in your present job your favorite function is "checking customers out."

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you have used this as your e-mail on resumes ihatemylife@google.com.

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you have used this as your e-mail on resumes ihatework@google.com.

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you have used this as your e-mail on resumes worksucks@yahoo.com.

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you have become completely paranoid, trusting completely no one and absolutely nothing.

Download the free E-book with a chapter of Career Success Without a Real Job at Career Success E-book

Check out Career Success on Twitter

Career Resources for Retirees Who Want a Retirement Job

If you are a retiree thinking about going back to work, here are some more tell-tale signs that you should read Career Success Without a Real Job:

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your biggest claim to fame is being “Able to say the ABCs backward in under five seconds.”

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you have ever placed this on a résumé: “Am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget details.”

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if people are so narrow-minded at your workplace that you have to stack their prejudices vertically.

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you have ever placed this on a résumé: “I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse.”

Here are some success quotes if you still want to work in retirement and become a success in your career:

To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
— Sister Mary Lauretta

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
— George Eliot

Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.
— from The Lazy Person's Guide to Success

Here are some more resources for retirees:

Retirement Quotes Cafe

Fun Retirement Jobs at The Retirement Cafe

Retirement Jobs at The Real Career Resource Center

Why You May Have to Read "Career Success Without a Real Job"

Here are more tell-tale signs that you may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job:

• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your workplace has you wondering, "If ignorance is bliss, why aren't all my co-workers happy?"
• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your workplace is a refuge for the imbeciles and the incurables.
• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if hope at your workplace is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible such as things will be better next month.
• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if hope at your workplace is an illusion reserved for the polyannas.
• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your company believes that the essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.
• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you learned this from your workplace: "Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge."

For more information on how to live without a job, check out The Joy of Not Working by Ernie Zelinski.

For fun retirement jobs see Fun Retirement Jobs at the The Retirement Cafe.

True Career Success and Career Success — Not!

These come from Career Success on Twitter:

You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you worship idleness because it is eco-friendly.

TRUE CAREER SUCCESS: "Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

CAREER SUCCESS — NOT! "If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there."

CAREER SUCCESS — NOT! "Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."

— Doug Larson

TRUE CAREER SUCCESS: "Every prosperous person who does not work hard has a creative project or intellectual property that does."

CAREER SUCCESS — NOT! "Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable."

— Kin Hubbard



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