Starting over: How to recharge your life-style and career : with firsthand accounts of the new pioneers who've done it

by Allan A. Swenson

"Starting How to Recharge Your Life-Style and Career, With Firsthand Accounts of the New Pioneers Who'Ve Done It" is an inspiring and thought-provoking book that tells you about how the author and the many people who set out for new horizons by starting over in their careers. People who became tired of the rat race and fed up with communting; tired of the pressures of their job that leaves little time for themselves and their families; folks who long for new and meaningful challenges; some just longed for a small out-of-the-way community where you think you could be self-sufficient and at peace with the world. This book will tell you how many people, like you, who have made the transition to a new life. You'll discover some of the vital signs about your dream community that can be learned at the local diner or barbershop. You'll learn key questions to ask bankers, local business people, boards of education, and your prospective neighbors. You'll find tips on reading between the lines of a realtor's contract, as well as on how to learn whether your "new frontier" can support your particula! r dream of happiness. Other chapters give you advise on how to settle in comfortably, whether you wish to blend into the surroundings or gake an active part in your new community's affairs. Most importantly, you'll find how easy it is to become "downward mobile" when you reexamine the essentials of what it takes to make you truly happy. The people in this book tell their own stories - and they are *real*. You may sympathize with some, envy others, and be astonished by a few. But their experiences, dreams, successes and failures will help and inspire you as you look toward your own place in the sun!

214 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978