by Brian Kurth
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In TEST-DRIVE YOUR DREAM JOB, you'll discover how you can identify, explore and experience your dream job, and how or if you want to pursue it. 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.
By following this practical and encouraging self-discovery guide, you will gain a better understanding of who you are now; what fulfills you both personally and professionally; how to get from Point A to Point B on the road to your dream job; or perhaps satisfy your curiosity and gain a deeper appreciation for where you are now in your life and your career.
Brian Kurth is a sought-after expert on how to pursue and attain one's dream job. He has shared his wit and wisdom in appearances on NBC's TODAY Show, CNN, and FOX News, and has been featured in articles in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine. Many more regularly turn to Brian for his comments, advice and insights. A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Kurth lives in Portland, Oregon. (2007)
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Test-Drive Your Dream Job, 2008-04-04
Test-Drive Your Dream Job is one of the most enjoyable business how-to books I've read. Brian Kurth relates his personal experiences of creating his own dream job (creating Vocation Vacations) and is honest about the pitfalls such a change can take. Certainly Kurth would probably love to get new clients from his book but advertising doesn't seem to be the main point behind the book. Kurth's enthusiasm is for helping people find the perfect job no matter where one is in life or career.
Test-Drive Your Dream Job at 256 pages is the perfect length to read through in one or two sittings. The basic idea behind the book is the importance of finding a mentor and then "test-driving" the new job with a mentor's guidance. As it happens, that's exactly the service that Vocation Vacations offers but one could easily follow the steps of the book without hiring Kurth's company.
There are many check lists and how-to scenarios to help readers through the process of finding a mentor. There are sample letters, emails and telephone scripts to help readers make it through the process of researching the dream job, finding prospective mentors, hooking up a with a mentor and following through with the test-drive.
Changing jobs isn't easy and Kurth relates his own experience on how the process of setting up Vocation Vacations paid on his personal life. Before jumping into a new career, take the time to consider the ramifications: how will the bills be paid, how does your family feel about it, what happens if the new career doesn't work out?
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
 What is your dream job?, 2008-01-18
In 2004 Brian Kurth launched an innovative company he called Vocation Vacations. The company helps people who are considering career changes to "test-drive" the dream job before signing on the bottom line to commit to a new life. Test-Drive Your Dream Job is the story of how his new venture came about and also the stories of others who have tried his vocation vacations with varying results.
Kurth's plan to start this type of business came as the result of fantasizing while making a 90-minute commute to work each day in Chicago. He was daydreaming about all of the kinds of jobs he wished he had rather than the one he was headed to. While waiting in traffic he thought up the name Vocation Vacations, and almost on a whim, registered the domain name. Eight years later he started his new company.
The book describes the vocations/jobs that some of his clients have tried out. They have been as diverse as opening a bakery to becoming a dog trainer. Some have blossomed into successful careers. Others have discovered that the realities of their dream job were more like a nightmare. So trying out the career move saved some real agony in the long run.
While interesting in part, I found the book a bit simplistic. Kurth seems to think he is giving readers all of the tools they would need to leave an unsatisfying job and move into a "career for which they feel a deep sense of passion and purpose." But nearly all of his examples are well-educated members of the corporate world who are bored with the day-to-day work.
He tends to romanticize the "joys" of small business ownership, but assumes a lifestyle that doesn't have multiple financial responsibilities.
I just couldn't take his methodology seriously. And the book dragged on too long for a light look at how to find the perfect job.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
"Don't Have Passion? Get This Book.", 2008-01-10
If I could wish any 5 things for my children, one would be that they have passion for their job/career. I have a job I am passionate about, but I have seen my father work very hard in a job that he hates. He counts down the days to the retirement.
You can make money and love your job. However, be smart about any job transitions. Read this book first! Life is too short to waste on a job that makes you miserable. Robin Simons is also the founder of Vocation Vacations.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
The real deal!, 2008-01-08
If this book is anything like a real Vocation Vacation, reading it will be a transformative experience. I can't wait to get started!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
 Keys to unlocking your creative spirit, 2008-01-07
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
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