Career Success without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations

by Ernie J. Zelinski Visions International Publishing

Overview

This unconventional career guide is designed for those millions of individuals who would like to break free of corporate life so that they have complete control over their lives. This book will also appeal to millions of baby-boomer retirees who want to continue working—but not in a traditional corporate setting. Ordinary career success is a real good job—real career success is a real good life! according to world-class author Ernie Zelinski. The author, a corporate escape artist for over 20 years, shows individuals how to avoid the common mistakes that keep the majority in society confined to cubicles and chained to corporations for their entire lives. Positive, lively, and captivating, Career Success Without a Real Job is designed to help you live and enjoy an extraordinary lifestyle that is the envy of the corporate world. You will be inspired to fire your boss and take control of your destiny by creating your own dream job or operating your own unconventional business.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780969419471
Publisher:	Visions International Publishing
Publication date:	04/16/2009
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

ERNIE J. ZELINSKI is a best-selling author, consultant, and lecturer on the subject of applying creativity to business and leisure. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Chapter 1 Life Without a Real Job Will Set You Free 5

Corporate Employment Is So Last Year! 5

Ordinary Career Success Is a Real Good Job; Real Career Success Is a Real Good Life 11

Don't Work Solely to Make a Lot of Money and You Will Likely End Up Making a Lot of Money 18

If You Recently Got Fired from Your Job, Your Good Luck Has Just Begun 23

Cool, Unusual Reasons to Quit Your Real Job 27

If You Love Your Work, Keep on Rocking 29

Chapter 2 Unreal Jobs - So Many Worlds; What to Do? 33

The Best Time to Pursue Your Dream Career Is Twenty Years Ago and Today 33

Stop Dreaming; Start Choosing 41

Why Not Work for the Best Boss in the World - Twenty Million Individuals Already Do! 50

There's No Better Business than Your Own Unconventional Business 56

The World's Coolest Unreal Jobs 63

Today's Most Exciting Unconventional Business That Allows You to Make Money While You Sleep 66

Write Yourself out of Poverty into Satisfaction and Riches 71

Retire to a Job You Love Instead of One You Love to Hate 75

Chapter 3 Extraordinary Success Is Achieved by Ordinary People 81

Real People Attain Unreal Success - So Can You! 81

Commit Yourself to Being Successful and You Won't Have to Be a Victim - Ever Again! 93

Receiving a Lot of Criticism Is a Good Sign That You Are Well on Your Way to Success 98

Action Has Magic, Power, and Grace in It 102

Chapter 4 Get Creative - You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World! 109

Creativity Is Your Biggest Asset - Bar None! 109

Bold, Creative Effort Will Dispel Your Fears and Bring You Good Fortune 116

A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business 119

Just One Great Idea Can Change Your Life Dramatically - It'sThere Somewhere! 123

Hard Work and Real Success - Oil and Water! 126

Chapter 5 It's Not Just an Unreal Job - It's a Real Business! 131

It's Not Creative Unless It Sells! 131

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy 138

Try Something So Stupid That It May Pay Off Big Time 143

Claim Your Way to Fame 146

Give Yourself Away to the Influencers of This World 149

Chapter 6 Prosperity Comes When Your Do the Right Things with Your Life 151

More Money Won't Bring You More Happiness - It Works the Other Way Around! 151

Financial Freedom Does Not Have to Be Just a Dream 158

Your Prosperity Will Grow to the Extent That You Do 165

To Acquire the Golden Touch with Money, Hang around People with the Golden Touch 170

Try to Spend More on Your Career Training and Personal Development than on Your Next Hairstyle 173

Prosperity Spending Is Good for Your Financial Soul 177

Chapter 7 The Work Model for People Too Prosperous to Do Mornings 181

The Unquestioned Quest for Corporate Success Is an Idiot's Journey at Best 181

You Don't Have to Be Able to Walk on Water to Make Money While You Sleep 183

Becoming an Internet Marketing Genius Is a Lot Easier than You Think 196

Do It Badly - But at Least Do It 199

Chapter 8 It's All in How You Play the Game, Isn't It? 203

It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been 203

Look Ma: Life's Easy 209

Failure Is the Universe's Way of Ensuring That Too Much Success Doesn't Happen All at Once 217

Do Your Best and the Best of Things Will Come Your Way 219

Ah, Career Success Without a Real Job - There Is No Life Like It! 224