The Quarter-Life Breakthrough: Invent Your Own Path, Find Meaningful Work, and Build a Life That MattersAn empowering and insightful self-help book for Gen Z young adults to find passion, purpose, and success in their careers How do you actually find meaning in the workplace? How do you find work that makes your heart sing, creates impact, and pays your rent? After realizing that his well-paying, prestigious job was actually making him miserable, Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky started asking these big questions. The Quarter-Life Breakthrough provides fresh, honest, counterintuitive, and inspiring career advice for anyone stuck in a quarter-life crisis (or third-life crisis), trying to figure out what to do with your life. Smiley shares the stories of many twenty- and thirty-somethings who are discovering how to work with purpose (and still pay the bills). Brimming with practical exercises and advice, this book is essential reading for millennial career changers and anyone passionate about getting unstuck, pursuing work that matters, and changing the world. |
Contents
Start Jumping Lily Pads | 3 |
No Mo FOMO | 17 |
Embrace Fear | 25 |
Define Meaningful Work | 37 |
353 | 59 |
The Infinite Paths to Meaningful Work | 73 |
How to KickStart Your Meaningful Job Search | 93 |
Is Graduate School Worth | 116 |
What to Do When Someone Tells | 127 |
Persistence Trumps Passion | 150 |
Find Believers | 160 |
Leave a Legacy | 179 |
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