Mid-Life Career Rescue (The Call For Change): How to change careers, confidently leave a job you hate, and start living a life you love, before it’s too late

by Cassandra Gaisford, Ida Fia Sveningsson (Illustrator)

Practical, inspiring and empowering tips and strategies every job hunter and career changer needs to know   Are you showing signs of job dissatisfaction? Did you wake up this morning excited to face the day ahead? Or did the thought of getting up and going to work make you wish you could stay in bed? If Monday mornings are a low point in your week, it may be a sign that it’s time for a new career. Often you know what you want subconsciously before you know it consciously. While you may still be debating whether or not to stay in your job, your subconscious mind may have already decided it’s time for you to move on. The trouble is, you may not know what to do. You may be like so many career changers who say, “I could do anything if only I knew what it was.” Perhaps your job is making you sick. Common signs of neglecting your happiness and feeling trapped in a job that you don’t enjoy can • Headaches • Insomnia • Tiredness • Depression • Low self-esteem • Lack of confidence • Irritability and other warning signs. It’s not surprising you may be struggling to get the energy or confidence needed to successfully find a new job or make a career change. Mid-Life Career Rescue will help take the stress out of making a change, confirm your best-fit career and give you the confidence to move toward your preferred future. Whether you’re wanting to make a mid-life career change, proactively looking for new and more fulfilling ways of working and earning a living, job-hunting after job loss, or hoping to fall back in love with a job that you’ve come to hate, this book comes to the rescue. Career counseling expert, holistic therapist, and best-selling author of Stress Less and How to Find Your Passion and Purpose, Cassandra Gaisford (BCA, Dip Psych) shares inspiring and practical career-change and job-hunting tips and strategies, she's used successfully herself and with clients. Mid-Life Career Rescue will help * Discover a job you love, and find your passion and purpose * Boost confidence, courage, and self-esteem * Flame the embers of inspiration and enthusiasm * Identify and find your skills, talents, strengths and point of brilliance * Reduce stress, insecurity, anxiety, depression, and self-doubt * Boost confidence, and improve low self-esteem, insecurity, anxiety, depression and self-doubt * Break free of a job you hate and be happy * Increase your health and well-being * Successfully make a career change after 50 Whether you love the idea of the 4-hour workweek, want to find a job that reflects who you are and what's important to you, or thinking about starting a business, changing careers and finding a new job can be yours. As Richard N Bolles, author of 'What Colour Is Your Parachute', once said to the author, “sometimes all it takes is one book, one sentence to transform your life.” Quit feeling trapped. Reclaim your power! Find a job you love and finally live the life you want. Scroll up and click "Buy Now” before it’s too late. The strategies in this book will also help job-hunters in their 20s, 30s or 40s successfully change careers. REVISED AND UPDATED WITH BONUS CHAPTER, "OVERCOMING OBSTACLES"

Genres: Self Help

234 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 4, 2015

About the author

Cassandra Gaisford is an award-winning artist and #1 Amazon best-selling author.

A corporate escapee, she now lives and works from her idyllic lifestyle property overlooking the Bay of Islands in New Zealand.

Cassandra is also an author of historical art-related fiction. She loves all the arts, travelling, orchids and anything that is inspiring, uplifting and beautiful.

Under her pen name, Mollie Mathews (www.molliemathews.com), she also writes love stories and romantic fiction.

Reviews

[Drew Kostic · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a whole lot of depth - same type of advice you can get on any internet self-help page. However, earned a third star for the practical quizzes and activities that make you realize what you want and what has been making you unhappy in the first place.

[Cady · Rating 1 out of 5]

Garbage. This book is the professional equivalent of telling a depressed person “have you tried just being happy?” … obviously if I’m reading this book I’m unhappy at work and looking for practical advice on a career change, not “change your attitude and keep a gratitude journal”
I’m sure these are helpful bits of advice but they are not tangible actions for navigating a career change.

Separate from that, the entire book (literally every couple pages) will direct you to go to her website or watch someone else’s video or read another one of her books or someone else’s book. What’s the point? A functional aid would provide documented research and make it digestible along with references for further research.

That’s what I get for trying out self help lol

[Andy Dill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cassandra Gaisford has written an excellent book for those of us who hate their job, have had enough of the long hours, have been made redundant, or just want a new career. She uses examples of many who have become successful in later years.

She uses excellent examples as well as exercises to guide you in the process of figuring out your new career. She has exercises that will help you decide what you want to do, exercises that will help you identify your talents, exercises that will help you with every aspect of career change. You are never too old to make a change and everyone has talents whether they know it or not. We all have experiences and interests that can lead to a rewarding career.

She guides you through the process with action questions, step by step procedures on what to do to prepare for the change, and many quotes from people who have studied later life career changes and those who have made those changes. She gives you great examples of ways to motivate yourself to learn all you an about what it is you might want to do.

This is a book I needed. I have had enough of the long hours in a job that will take me nowhere. I am ready to move on and move up. I recommend it to anyone who is dissatisfied with their current career or job, or whose job has lost them, or anyone who just wants something different. Get this book today and get the life you want before it is too late.

[Brian Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mid-Life Career Rescue is the book for anyone who is middle-aged and feeling dissatisfied with their job. The author describes the book as self-empowering, not self-help. I agree.

The author knows of what she speaks. She transformed her own career with these principles and has created a successful practice helping others do the same. Several client success stories are included in this book.

Often people in mid-life feel stuck and unable to change. The author rightly shows that change is possible, and provides a framework and exercises for transformation. Read this book and rescue your own career.

[Deb DA Gerrald · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is not for skeptics or evidence-based seekers. Multiple references to the pseudo psychology “The Secret” almost did me in. The content was very NZ-centric and links to supporting references in the Kindle version did not work. It was mostly a collection of quotes and one-sentence paragraphs about positive thinking. Guidance was dated: IT manager becomes a travel agent? What’s the career viability of travel agents in 2021? And she actually mentioned with enthusiasm the widely-discredited “experiment” on thoughts and water by a man named Emoto who claimed to be a doctor (but was neither an MD nor PhD), but his work was a set of tasks that could not be replicated and had zero baseline controls.

Mostly this item is an amalgamation of cognitive behavior therapy tidbits mixed with pseudo-science. It wasn’t anything I had not read before, and other than some quizzes there was very little actionable here. I hoped for much more than this, given her book series in this space.

[Katie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Most of the content in this book just promotes the author's other works.

Also, at one point she claims that there are less younger workers in the job market, making more room for baby bombers? That's total BS.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

The specificity of the book by focusing on those in mid-life, and offering clear tangible action steps with examples is what I found so useful in this book.

It also offers good resources, quizzes and action tasks.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thought provoking

Quick read. It was very thought provoking and the guided exercises made it personal to my own journey. It's good to self reflect and revisit from time to time.

[Simon Weiner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probably you are now at an unhappy place in your career and are looking to make some changes in your life. You may not be sure of your next move and may be unwilling to take the risk to your lifestyle. Well this book [Mid-Life Career Rescue: How to change careers, confidently leave a job you hate, and start living a life you love, before it's too late|27507283] will certainly help you as you reflect on your current career progress and look at the costs and benefits of your career choice. But most importantly of all, this book will help you to find your new path to your new happier life by asking you some critical questions and providing examples of what is possible. My career change would have been easier if I had access to such a book some ten years ago. Use this book to help you make your successful career change to finally find your passion.

[Paul Brodie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really connected with this book as I am in the process of making changes in my own career. It is a challenge to stay happy, especially at work. This book shows how you can prepare yourself for changes and improve your situation. I love how the author shows that anything is possible and how you can change your situation no matter the circumstance. I highly recommend this book for your collection.