Test-Drive Your Dream Job: A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding and Creating the Work You Love

by Brian Kurth and Robin Simons

Book Overview

Discover how you can identify, explore, and experience your dream job, and figure out if it's what you really want before taking the dive.

Author Brian Kurth, founder of VocationVacations, offers professional, personal and financial perspectives on how to transition into a new career and turn your dream job into a reality without risking your current job or jeopardizing your financial stability.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446698881
• ISBN13: 9780446698887
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Business Plus
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Dream Job

I loved this book. Made you feel that it was okay to want another occupation and that it was safe to give it a try no matter how far you take the search. It shows you how other people have found and reached their goals. It also showed how some people believed that they wanted a certain occupation but after actually doing the work with a mentor realized that it was not for them. Brian's idea of test driving a job is wonderful and I think it helps open the door for those of us who seek new work.

Keys to unlocking your creative spirit

Test Drive Your Dream Job: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding and Creating the Work You Love As a professional life and career coach, I have a mantra that runs through my coaching practice, "Connect Your Passion and Pursue Your Creative Spirit!" This mantra is clearly offered in Test-Drive Your Dream Job: A Step-by Step Guide to Finding and Creating the Work You Love by Brian Kurth. This book is a must read for anyone who is contemplating or currently on a journey of professional discovery to connect or re-connect their passion and creative spirit. Test-Drive Your Dream Job is filled with true life stories of individuals who were willing to break the cycle of doing what they had always done, to explore their gifts and talents and pursue the things they love most. Test-Drive Your Dream Job, offers readers hands-on advice and guidance and a process for not just dreaming about, but actually creating, the career and lifestyle they have always desired, or identifying those things they may not want to pursue. I recommend you discover, connect and Test-Drive Your Dream Job ...one step at a time. Will Wiebe Certified Professional Life & Career Coach

Vocational Development Handbook

As a retired professor of Counseling Psychology I spent many years teaching vocational development to M.S. and Ph.D. students. My own dissertation and the first 12 years of my research was about vocational development. Brian's book is the best how-to book on the market! Not just in changing vocations but the process of choosing a career for beginners. If I were still teaching, his book would be one of my required texts. It is so clear and well laid out with all the essential how-to's it would be must reading. The anecdotal cases make the whole process vivid and real for the reader and searcher. The whole idea is fantastic for those who always wanted to try something different. At age 70 I am not inclined to try a new vocation. But, I did try a vacation experience with Brian's company that was fantastic. We live in FL and summer in WI. I found a VocationVaction just down the road from our WI residence - Sword Making at Albion Swords! I spent two days learning how to make and making my own 15th century sword! My mentor and I had a lot of common background and I got to learn how they make museum quality medieval swords. Brian's company isn't just for wanting to change vocations but also for those who always wanted to try something. This book is one of the best how-to books I have seen and there are a lot of them in the popular psychology genre.

Do what you love and love what you do

TEST DRIVE YOUR DREAM JOB There are hundreds (thousands?) of career development and self-help books out there, but not enough that offer something new and fresh - and include a clear plan. This is one of the best books I have read in this genre. The individual stories are inspiring and relatable. Brian Kurth has come up with a brilliant road map for going from making a living to making a life. This book is user-friendly - he isn't talking down to us, he's been there himself. Most of us approach a career change with the same joy we have for say, root canal and Kurth generously provides us with a plan that could and should be stimulating, interesting and dare I say - FUN? This innovative approach of "test-driving" one's dream job makes so much sense. It takes the information interview to a whole new level. I was always taught that "you need good information to make a good decision" and this book totally tells you how to get that information you will need - from assessing your own needs and goals, to what a particular job might entail. Truly one of the best resources out there. I'm glad it's in paperback - because I'm not willing to part with my copy and I know several friends who I need to buy this for!

Do you need inspiration to make a career change?

Inspirational, educational, entertaining, great testimonials and stories. Terrific fast read for anyone contemplating career change or needing inspiration to make change in their lives. I have read many books about career change and this was one of the best and most inspirational out there! Great step by step process that can be easily followed----but the stories are what make it real and achievable. Great insight into how to go about finding a mentor - which I feel is one of the most important steps before actually making a career change! A must read...