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Zusatztext "What a delightful book! ... This is a great manual for making big changes." —Kirkus Informationen zum Autor Sara Bliss is an author, speaker, brand advisor and New York Times bestselling author. A Forbes contributor covering career pivots, Sara's articles have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Travel and Leisure, and Yahoo. Sara is the co-author and author of eleven books including Hotel Chic at Home and Beauty from the Inside Out with beauty and wellness guru Bobbi Brown. Sara's eleventh book Take the Leap has been featured in The New York Times, GOOP, and the TODAY show. Klappentext A road map for landing your dream job. Take the Leap features inspiration and advice from more than sixty-five people who transformed their lives?and with this guide, so can you. These are game changers, rule breakers, and side hustlers who once stood where you are now, wondering if they should take a risk. They went from production assistant to million-dollar screenplay writer; attorney to surf instructor; mom to DJ; hairdresser to firefighter; real estate agent to award-winning chef. Do you want to go for that career you've always dreamed about? Launch a new company? Become a tech mogul? Live a life of adventure? Save the world? You'll find wisdom from successful mentors like creative visionary and writer Simon Doonan, entrepreneur Barbara Corcoran, NFL player turned artist/activist Aaron Maybin, and wellness and beauty guru Bobbi Brown. This is a career guide for today's ever-changing job market. Thinking about your own next chapter? Take the leap.Take the Leap INTRODUCTION ADMIT IT. You sometimes fantasize about living a completely different life. YOU IMAGINE HEADING TO WORK via sailboat, not subway. Trading in your dreary cubicle for a job that pays you to travel the globe. Or replacing your small paycheck with a six-figure advance. Maybe you’re looking to do something truer to who you really are, moonlighting as a yoga instructor or a comedian or even a firefighter. Perhaps you feel the call to transform other people’s lives through education or art or therapy. Or you finally want to see your name in lights. Whatever it is that you sometimes dream about—what if it could actually be your life? Take the Leap features more than sixty stories of people who made their fantasy a reality. The Texas lawyer who now runs a surf school in Nicaragua, the professional football player who is making it as an artist, the movie studio president who sold all his possessions to move halfway around the world and start a charity. It turns out that changing careers isn’t always about the job as much as it is about changing your life. The landscape of work is radically shifting. Fifty years ago, it was common to choose a career for life. Today only 9 percent of Americans have the same employer for more than twenty years according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Thanks to the internet, it’s never been easier to apply for jobs, connect with other people in your field, research another industry, learn a new skill, market yourself, create a brand, or launch a business. According to a survey by the Freelancers Union and Upwork, 2017 saw 57.3 million people freelancing, an 8.1 percent increase from 2014. Some people find themselves needing to pivot because the job they thought they would always have no longer exists. For others, what they want out of life can change. I know how challenging it is to make a career switch, even in the early stages. Growing up, I dreamed of being a writer like Nora Ephron. I imagined publishing a book a year, with a few movies or plays thrown in. T...
