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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.
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The Quarter-Life Breakthrough
Fresh and engaging, this book will inspire the next generation to lead with purpose.
Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com; New York Times bestselling author of Delivering Happiness
I wish this book landed on my desk when I hit my quarter-life crisis! I could have saved years of frustration. Dont miss your own breakthrough; pick up this book!
Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author of Do Over
With his triumphant The Quarter-Life Breakthrough, millennial Adam Smiley Poswolsky earns his place as a major voice of his generation. Pragmatic, philosophical, passionate, humble, delightfully funny, and infectiously inspiring, Poswolsky is a torchlight for those hungry to craft a more purposeful and rewarding adult life.
Julie Lythcott-Haims, New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult
Smart stuff. Smiley moves past simplistic slogans and offers instead practical and nuanced strategies for succeeding in the noble task of crafting a working life that matters.
Cal Newport, author of Deep Work and So Good They Cant Ignore You
Smileys words speak to the dreamer and doer in each of us by tapping into that true voice that calls from within.
Elle Luna, artist; author of The Crossroads of Should and Must
With clear stepping stones, The Quarter-Life Breakthrough is an honest and actionable guide for young people who are eager to see and seize meaningful opportunities.
Tina Seelig, Professor of the Practice, Stanford University; author of What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
Our generation never settles for careers they arent passionate about. The Quarter-Life Breakthrough is the ultimate field guide to living life on your own terms and creating meaning in your work.
Dan Schawbel, New York Times bestselling author of Promote Yourself and Me 2.0
This awesome book is chock full of smart, practical, relatable, and timely tips for meaning-makers. If you want to make a bigger impact in others lives, connect with a community you love, and find greater fulfillment even in an ever-changing career landscape, buy this book. And then re-read it whenever you need to turn a breakdown into a breakthrough.
Jenny Blake, author of Pivot and Life After College
The What Color Is Your Parachute? for the millennial generation.
Aaron Hurst, CEO, Imperative; author of The Purpose Economy
I wish I had Smileys voice in my head during my twenties. The Quarter-Life Breakthrough pairs the unvarnished reality with confident, simple exercises that will move you to act at just the right time.
Dev Aujla, author of Making Good
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An excerpt from an early version of Chapter 1 appeared in The career ladder to nowhere in The Washington Post, June 12, 2014.
An excerpt from an early version of the Introduction appeared in 4 Tips to Find Meaningful Work in Fast Company, April 16, 2014.
An excerpt from an early version of the Introduction and Chapter 4 appeared in How to Find Meaningful Work: Start With Asking the Right Questions in GOOD, April 13, 2014.
eBook ISBN: 9781101992296
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Poswolsky, Smiley, author.
Title: The quarter-life breakthrough : invent your own path, find meaningful work, and build a life that matters / Adam Smiley Poswolsky.
Description: First Edition. | New York, NY : TarcherPerigee, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016015566 | ISBN 9780143109525 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Job hunting. | Career development. | Motivation (Psychology) | BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Motivational. | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship. | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General.
Classification: LCC HF5382.7 .P685 2016 | DDC 650.1dc23
Illustrations by Sumeet Banerji
Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals involved.
Cover design: Zoe Norvell
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This book is for anyone who ever heard, Thats not possible, you cant do that, youre not good enough, you dont have the qualifications, youre too young or too old, you dont have the money or the connections, its too late, and took a deep breath, listened to their heart, and went out and did it anyway.
CONTENTS
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
ANNIE DILLARD
H AVE YOU EVER known that you needed to make a change, but were completely unable to do anything about it? Have you ever felt like you were physically paralyzed by life, like you were trapped in a room and you couldnt get out?
Thats exactly how I felt for almost two years at my job at the Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, DC. On paper and to the rest of the world, the job was perfect. I worked as the special assistant to the director of global operations and later was promoted to a program specialist. I got to sit in on senior staff meetings, draft important memos, and sometimes write remarks for the director of the Peace Corps. Once, I traveled to Botswana and worked with the Secret Service to help plan Michelle Obamas visit with Peace Corps volunteers.
The job had promotion potential. I was making $70,000 a year at the age of twenty-eight. I had the best health-care plan in the country, a matching 401(k) plan, and long-term job security.
My boss told me I was doing a great job, and that I was indispensable to the team. My parents were proud of me. When people at happy hour asked me the DC requisite So, what do you do? they were always impressed when I showed them my fancy business card and told them I worked at the Peace Corps.
Everything was perfect about my job, except for one tiny, very important thing: I was miserable.
Every time my alarm went off in the morning, Id feel a shooting pain go up and down my back. I used to call this pain my Morning Edition, because it coincided with NPR waking me up.
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