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Quitter by Jon Acuff

Some people are great writers, others aren’t.

It’s hard enough putting words together to form sentences, let alone putting thoughts down on paper and turning them into coherent stories.

While I may be on one end of the spectrum, Jon Acuff is certainly on the other. I’ve never found a writer that does a better job of describing real-life stories and getting the reader to feel connected to them. Every time I read his work I find myself saying: ‘that is exactly how I think/feel!’…it’s actually kind of creepy.

So when he came out with a book called, Quitter, I knew I had to put it on “the list.” Not only do I like the writing his does on his extremely successful blog, but a book talking about closing the gap between your day job to your dream job fits right up my alley.

Are You Like Everybody Else?

In the book, Jon states that 84 percent of employees plan to look for a new job this year. Furthermore, people between the ages of 25 and 34 only have an average tenure at their job of 3.1 years.

So, if you’re not looking for a job, then the point is that you certainly will be.

I know I added to those statistics for a long time; my job-hopping was so bad that my wife made fun of me for years. Apparently she thought it was cool that she had 1 job in the same timeframe that I had 4! Little did I know, but much like Jon, I was a perpetual Quitter.

I wondered if something was wrong with me. Why couldn’t I stay at one place? Why couldn’t I get along with certain bosses? Why did I hate all of my jobs? Why was I constantly looking to move and consistently looking for something better?

What I discovered is that it wasn’t me. Fine, I’m sure part of it was me. Mostly, it was the work I was doing and the industry I was in. There is no need to rehash everything again, as I wrote last week about the greatest waste in life and the importance of finding a job you love.

Highlights of the Book

• Defining normal: “The idea of only working four hours a week sounds appealing because the general assumption is that work is a terrible way to spend our time…People position adulthood like it’s the end of your life, not the beginning.”
• Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Jon helps open your eyes about the importance of viewing your current job as an opportunity, especially while you’re pursuing your dream job. Frankly, I wish I would have read this book about 5 years ago. For me, and what I was going through at my old jobs, I found it really difficult to view my job as a “blessing.” I wanted to run from them as quickly as possible, but reading through Quitter helped me look back and see my jobs (and the income they provided) as a huge reason as to why I was eventually able to pursue my dream job.
• “I’M, BUT” Generation: Jon walks you through ideas on finding your dream job and removing the typical line we hear from most people: “I’M a CPA, BUT I would like to be a ___________.”
• The reasons you can’t: if you’re anything like me, you’ll come up with dozens of excuses as to why it isn’t feasible to pursue your dream job. Quitter will help you sort through the common reasons and how to get around them.
• The importance of patience: while I’m currently working my dream job, I did start this blog to help as many people as possible gain control over their finances, find jobs they love, and live meaningful lives. While I don’t view this blog as my future career, or my dream job, there is still a desire for me to build it, GROW it, and have it become extremely popular. Jon really helped me lessen my expectations and realize why growing it slowly is such a great thing. Obviously this principle in the book doesn’t apply only to blogging, it applies to finding your dream job and how you go about it.
• Learning to be “successful at success”: this part of the book had the greatest impact on me by far. I certainly love what I do now and have lived Jon’s teachings in his book for a few years. But my biggest struggle – the struggle that all entrepreneurs and people that have a desire to be successful face – is learning to manage success. There is always another client to get, another deal to close, another venture to pursue, but when is enough, enough? Not only is Quitter for people looking to find a meaningful job, it is for people that have already started down that path.

Quitter is one of the better books I’ve read over the past year. Much of what you read today is mumbo-jumbo regurgitated from one author by another; fortunately for me, Quitter wasn’t such.

Regardless of where you are in your path to finding your dream job, Quitter will challenge you with a proven roadmap of what it takes to pursue a job you love, and be successful while you’re in the discovery process and in the middle of that journey.

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