Overview:
Until recently, Tess Vigeland was a longtime host with Public Radio’s Marketplace; it was a rewarding, high-status job, and Tess was very good at it—but she’d begun to feel restless. Without any definite, clear sense of what she wanted to do next (but an absolute certainty that what she’d been doing was no longer truly satisfying), she walked away from her dream job and into a vast unknown. Suddenly she was no longer “Marketplace’s Tess Vigeland,” she was just Tess Vigeland.
For the multitude of Americans who change jobs mid-career (by choice or circumstance), the growing legions of freelance workers, and the entrepreneurially-minded who see self-employment as an increasingly more appealing and viable option, Tess Vigeland has created a personal and well-researched account of leaping without a net. With her signature humor, she writes honestly about the fear, uncertainty, and risk involved in leaving the traditional workforce—but also the excitement, resources, and possibilities that are on the other side. Part memoir and part field guide, this book offers a funny, thoughtful, and provocative look at how to find happiness, satisfaction, and success when pursuing a career less ordinary.
Would I Recommend It?
Thinking to quit your job, but feeling insane about it? YES! Read this book.
Thoughts?
I wasn’t looking for this book. It found me.
In the history section of Barnes and Noble.
Not at all where it’s supposed to be. Like it was in front of some Civil War books.
I was looking for my next auto or biography of someone kick ass, and then BOOM! this red covered book behind me, well, just leaped out at me. (Absolute. True story. I mean… the book didn’t like, physically leap off the shelf at me – but the bright red cover definitely caught my attention.)
I had already decided to quit my job. I was smack dab in the middle of making plans of my exit from my job industry of 15 years. I was fed up. Stressed out. Done. Wanted to take a year off.
Reading this book absolutely helped me feel sane about my decisions to quit and take a breather.
I am not of the mantra “don’t ever quit.” That’s just plain stupid and dangerous. Some things a person should quit on. My job was definitely one of them. It was making me miserable. Once upon a time I had LOVED my job. But, 15 years of mortgage lending industry can sure drive you to make you hate your life at work. It wasn’t a healthy relationship and I was on the road to getting out of there and taking a nice, year long break. And! I had no plans after that. I figured I’ll figure that out later. I LOVED that the author, too, is against the crazy American culture of never quitting.
This book. This book absolutely and totally solidified my decision that quitting was the absolutely the most sanest thing to do. And without having a plan thereafter.
Spoiler alert. My life, like the author’s in the book, became beyond awesome because I quit my job and I’m thriving since I’ve made that decision and my year off in 2016 was kick buttocks.
So, read this book if you’re worried about quitting and not having a plan B. Or if your friends and family are going against your decision of wanting to quit. This book should give you some solace or sanity that you are not alone in the thoughts you are having and many of us have gone before you, successfully quit, and succeeded thereafter.
Book:
Leap: Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want
Author:
Tess Vigeland
Genre:
Non-Fiction, Motivational
My Rating:
5 Stars
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