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48 Days To The Work You Love |  | Author: Dan Miller
Creator: Dave Ramsey
Publisher: B&H Books
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: Book Club Edition
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0805431888
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.13
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Publication Date: January 1, 2005
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Product Description
48 Days to the Work You Love is not about finding a new job. It is about finding out what you are going to “be.â According to Dan Miller, failing to make that fundamental discovery is why so many people find themselves in jobs they hate. But the great news is this book will lead you to the vocation you will love. Dan Miller will help you see clear patterns form from which you can make successful career and job decisions by understanding your God-given skills and abilities, personality traits, values, dreams, and passions. These patterns create a compass for you. Finding the work you love is finding the fulfillment of your calling.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 157
 Understand Yourself First March 2, 2005
John Matlock (Winnemucca, NV)
158 out of 165 found this review helpful
In reading this I was reminded of the old saying, "To thine own self be true." I first thought that this was a book on how to find a new and better job in 48 days.
Instead it's a book on self discovery. It's how to find, look at, and understand your own skills, abilities, personality traits, values, dreams, and passions.
Once you understand where you are and where you're coming from, you have the basis for making some decisions about where you want to go. Then you can use this knowledge to find a better job, to start a business or whatever.
Dan Miller then covers the fundamentals of finding the new job, or the new business. It's an interesting combination of a self-help and business advice.
Book Review: 48 Days July 12, 2007
Anthony Centore Ph.D. (www.ThriveBoston.com (Cambridge, MA))
64 out of 66 found this review helpful
Did you know heart attacks increase by 33% on Monday mornings, more people die at 9am Monday than any other time of the week, and male suicides are highest on Sunday nights, just before the weekly grind? Dan Miller does, and impending death is just one of the reasons he wants you to find better work.
Dan Miller's 48 Days to the Work You Love provides a combination of the things you already know but need to hear again, and need to know but don't. This book will do more than help you strengthen old resolutions; it will teach you how to make meaningful changes in your career--and in the way you view work altogether.
First, Quit your Job
48 Days persuades the reader to leave the job that isn't working (no pun intended), and find something better. "Job Security" is no longer an excuse to stay where you are over-worked and underpaid. While in the early 80s the employment philosophy was work for a good company and they'll take care of you for life, today loyal workers are often (not fired but) "laid off", "downsized", "right-sized", "reorganized", reengineered", "put into the mobility pool", freed up to "pursue other opportunities", "uninstalled", and are often on the receiving end of "a cost containment exercise" (email other creative terms to Miller at work@48days.com). Why the change? Fifty years ago it took a lifetime for technology to make your job obsolete. Today it takes 4 or 5 years. Therefore, as Miller explains, "everyone lives on the edge of job obsolescence and the threshold of career opportunity"
Miller is so for you quitting your job that he writes, "You must develop a sense of what you can contribute that goes beyond 1 company or organization. A career path today will likely involve moving from organization to organization, creating a picture of rising circles, rather than a vertical ladder. In fact, a vertical rise within one organization will very likely move you away from your strongest areas of competence." And it will limit your earning potential, as Miller suggests "in changing companies you may be able to increase your income by 40 to 50 percent though that is unlikely to happen while moving up in one company."
48?
I have to address this, as you surely are wondering, why does finding the work you love take exactly "48 Days"? Miller explains that 40 days is a sacred time-span, and to this he adds eight "free days in the process to create your own plan". I can't decide whether this is blasphemous or just really hokey--to Christianize your book with an overused `sacred' numeric, and then casually change it. Still, it's certainly better than other possible titles: Every Worker's Battle, The Work Factor, Loving your Work too Much, and Work is Not that into You Either.
Despite the title, the book reads and flows well. It takes the lecture, vignette, lecture, vignette, lecture, vignette approach--which works--and most of the stories are really quite good. A few are perfectly cliché, of course. For those who haven't heard, if you help a struggling butterfly out of its cocoon, it will die. It needs to do that on its own. The same applies to hatching birds.
There are 4 Things you Need to Know
Often books are published that would make a good book chapter--the 4 points the author drones on about can be summarized in a couple hundred words. One of the best things about 48 Days is as soon as you think you know everything Miller is going to write, he introduces something else. For example, all this came from the second-half of the book:
* Fewer than 1% of job seekers find work by responding to an internet ad
* During an interview, your answer to any question should be no longer than 60 seconds
* The best times to have an interview are Tues-Thurs between 8-10am
* 2,322 of 2,756 managers rank enthusiasm as #1 in what they want in applicants
* Today people are paid for their productivity, not their time, not their seniority
* IQ contributes only about 20% to the factors that predict success
* 69% of businesses today cost less than $10,000 to start; and 24% cost $0
* The most successful people got there not by being in the most lucrative industry, but by doing work they loved
A Brick in the Wall
Finally, Miller reminds the reader that work is a part of life, it's not life itself. Don't sacrifice your family, community, church, recreation, or personal development for a job. He writes good advice I should take myself: "if you are working more than 45 to 50 hours a week in your job, you are limiting success in some other areas of your life. Don't expect all your fulfillment, value, and meaning to com from the work you do."
He also writes we should work out 4-5 times a week. This being said, I'm late for the gym...
This is an essential for anyone in the workplace! January 14, 2005
Sara Josephson (New York)
35 out of 38 found this review helpful
How wonderful to find a book that gives hope and direction to all of us in the workplace. As Dan Miller says in his book, "The fruits of a fulfilling life - happiness, confidence, enthusiasm, purpose and money - are mainly by products of doing something you enjoy, with excellence, rather than things we seek directly." He also made me understand that I should decide what kind of life I want, then plan my work around it. What wonderful wisdom! If you are feeling like you aren't getting all you want out of your career and life, READ THIS BOOK!
Great book, Underlined at least 3 lines per page January 19, 2007
Timothy E. Arnold (Nashville, TN)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Dan Miller blows the lid of the traditional concept that work must be painfull and unfullfilling. This book is like a breath of fresh air in our TGIF mindset. Discover your skills, talents, natural bent, and build your work on that, you can't fail. Not to mention, Mondays don't matter when your doing what you love. Dan Miller causes the reader to begin their Vocation Search inwardlly. It's not a system designed to teach you how to manipulate others to give you the big money job that your not designed to do, rather he shows you how to find who you are and what you're made to do, and model you new bussines or vocation search after that.
If you hate your job, You are not where you are sopposed to be. It's that simple.
Excellent Book !!! January 13, 2005
J. Jeans
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
A great book, that blends both common sense and reality together concering finding meaningful work. If you think your work situation is awful, I would suggest this book. I hate to use this common uesed phrase, but it allowed me "think outside the box."
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