Making a Living While Making a Difference: A Guide to Creating Careers With a Conscience

by Melissa Everett

Today, more and more people are no longer content just to survive their working days. They want a career that offers real satisfaction, one that makes use of their skills without compromising their integrity, a career that makes a unique contribution to the world at large. If you are yearning to get off the conventional career ladder, to find work you can feel passionate about and proud of, Making a Living While Making a Difference can show you how. It begins by offering real-life stories of people who've faced the challenge of finding a job that is harmonious with their values and who've succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Then it provides a powerful ten-step program that covers everything from identifying your personal ethics, job requirements, and personal strengths to going out and finding - or creating - the job of your dreams.

343 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1995

Reviews

[Charlie]

The writing was engaging, and I enjoyed reading the stories about people who had found ways to combine passions and finances. Overall, the book left me discouraged since it drove home the steep slope I would have to climb to retrain for a different field at this point. I did pick up some ideas about fields that I wouldn't have considered in the past, but I felt frustrated by the lack of practical advice with regard to giving up one path for another without shirking my responsibilities to my family.

[Hannah]

Three-point-five. I think this book would be especially useful for people interested in going into environmental, non-profit and "sustainability" work. Even without that focus, however, it provides a lot of helpful reframings, and, I found, a generally freeing and empowering approach to re-orienting oneself in times of transition.

[Erika]

Lots of details, lots of examples, and a good starting point providing you have an idea of where you want to go.