Designing your Work Life - Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Career Change Book Reviews
Designing your work life - Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
What’s in it
I've read my fair share of career change books. So why pick up another one (apart from the utmost dedication to my clients)?
I'd heard about this book. About the approach it takes to (career) change. A design-thinking approach. Which is very action-focused. A trial-and-error approach. if you want. Where you design an action (a mini-project, an experiment) to find out if you like a job, or not. Then trial it. And learn from it afterwards.
Why I like it
I like this book. For the action focus. But mainly because of the down-to-earth-ness.
The book recognises that we all live in the real world. With bills to pay and responsibilities.
That we get our fulfilment from a range of sources - which the authors helpfully narrow down to three: Money, Impact and Expression, which will change at different stages of our life.
And that, whilst it is tempting to just throw in the towel at your current job, in most cases there is still a lot you can do to make your current job a whole lot more enjoyable.