An Honest Review for ’48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal’

October 19th, 2011 Filed under: Internet Home Businesses — Small Home Business Author

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In 2009, the U.S. unemployment rate approached ten percent. Today, when new work is found, it may not be traditional. Studies estimate half of the American workforce will soon consist of freelancers, consultants, independent contractors, entreprenuers, “electronic immigrants,” and so forth. Are you ready for the new normal?

Dan Miller has seen it coming for years. But his thriving vocational best seller, 48 Days to the Work You Love, is not so much about finding a new job as it is learning about who we are really called to be in relation to our vocation-whatever shape that career may take in these changing times. According to the author, failing to make that fundamental discovery of calling is why so many people find themselves in jobs they hate. But now, thousands upon thousands are finding the work they love, thanks to practical advice from this leading career counselor.

Conversational and creative, Miller helps the reader understand one’s Godgiven skills and abilities, personality traits, values, dreams, and passions. Doing so helps us recognize clear patterns that will point toward successful decisions along the career path. Step by step, this updated edition of 48 Days to the Work You Love reveals the process for creating a Life Plan and translating that plan into meaningful and fulfilling daily work. Let the countdown begin!


Review:

I’m an attorney, but I find that there is no area of the law that I enjoy being involved in. The difficulty is the money is good and I have a lot of debt from school loans. Dan Miller says I should find something I enjoy – something that makes the time pass by without notice – and go do that for a living. Well, let’s see, I enjoy playing computer games. Not making them or selling them or talking about the intellectual property rights that are associated with them – just playing them. So should I leave a high 5-figure income job while being over a quarter million in debt to go be the counter boy at the local video arcade? Dan’s answer? He doesn’t have one, but here’s some helpful advice like how to write a resume.

And the advice is inconsistent. For example, Dan talks about positive attitude in your job search. On one page, he writes he once lost all his money but the reader should praise him for his positive attitude and “[n]otice that I didn’t say we crashed and burned or that I failed at everything I did…” Four pages later, he writes in a sidebar, “Fifteen years ago I CRASHED AND BURNED in my business.”

Dan advises not to pursue the latest job trends because things change so fast nowadays. At one point, however, he points out one doesn’t need to be tech savvy to succeed because “fourteen of the 30 fastest growing jobs in the next decade are for healers” and “the demand for writers, artists, and entertainers will increase by 24 percent over the next decade.” Why list trends if we’re not supposed to follow them?

This book is poorly written, self-contradictory and doesn’t answer in any practical way the question the title implies it will.

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