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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 Kindle Edition

by Cassandra Gaisford (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 out of 5 stars 93 ratings

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 include:
• 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 you:

* 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"
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"Guides are necessary throughout mid-life, this book is a guide. Mid-life will not be rushed. Everybody experiences mid-life. It is a sacred journey, a sacred path, the Way. I know Cassandra. I trust her, respect her, and understand that her book is invaluable. I urge you to utilise this book as an inspirational tool and carry it as a treasure. Persevere with your mid-life, bring into consciousness your childhood dreams, as they will become your living realities."
~ Max Gimblett, Visual Artist

"Too few of us have been brought up to believe that it is possible to make our living doing something we love, that lights our hearts up and stirs our passions. This I call the work we were born to do. To find your true work is a great blessing, one of life's greatest blessings I believe. And to be paid for your work rather than work for pay is one of life's great joys. In this book, Cassandra helps you find your work, inspiring you to consider new possibilities, gently guiding you beyond limiting thinking, and helping you find your own true self and authentic work."
~ Nick Williams, Author of The Work We Were Born To Do

About the Author

Cassandra Gaisford is an author, holistic energy psychologist, career counsellor and life coach. She also trains people who are passionate about making a difference in peoples' lives to be professional career and life coaches.

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

She's a mid-lifer who wants more from her career than just go to work, grit her teeth and bare it. She wants to work with joy, passion, purpose and fulfilment - and she  still wants to pay the bills! Every day she is grateful that she has achieved all of those desires - and more. Through her books and services she is looking forward to helping you achieve those things too.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B017L7G3B4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Blue Giraffe Publishing
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 4, 2015
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
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New Zealander Cassandra Gaisford is a best-selling author, award-winning artist, mentor and intuitive guide. She is a former holistic counsellor and integrative therapist. She's is known as the Joyful Artist and The Queen of Uplifting Inspiration.

Cassandra is a corporate escapee who now lives and works from her idyllic lifestyle property overlooking the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. She 'walks the talk' - having reinvented her working life multiple times in the search for career nirvana and she's happy to say she's found it. Equally satisfying to her is that she's been able to share the knowledge she has gained. Over the years she has helped thousands of people from diverse backgrounds and circumstances find or create work they love, and to enjoy their lives.

Her journey and lessons learned are shared in her books "The Joyful Artist"; "Word by Word: Some Thoughts on Writing, Love, and Life"; and "Mid-life Career Rescue: How to confidently leave a job you hate and start living a life you love before it's too late."

Her other non-fiction books include How to Find Your Passion and Purpose; Mind Your Drink: The Surprising Joy of Sobriety: Control Alcohol, Discover Freedom, Find Happiness and Change Your Life; and a range of other self-empowerment titles.

Cassandra also writes romance novels under her pen name Mollie Mathews (www.molliemathews.com) She loves travelling, the arts and anything that is beautiful and uplifting.

www.cassandragaisford.com

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Customers find this book inspirational, with one mentioning it provides a framework and exercises for transformation. Moreover, the book is well-written and easy to read, and customers appreciate the self-assessment quizzes and action tasks included throughout.

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Customers find the book inspiring and helpful for considering new career direction, with one customer noting it provides practical tools for increasing self-awareness and another mentioning its framework and exercises for transformation.

"...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..." Read more

"...At a point where I desired positive change in my life it helped me build confidence, strengthened awareness of my skills, and taught me how to think..." Read more

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  • David A. Dill
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Guide to Lead You Out of Your Mid-Life Career Crisis
    Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2015
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    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.
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  • Pauline
    5.0 out of 5 stars Reinventing Midlife.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2016
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    If you are stuck in a mid-life rut then this is the go-to book for you. The author knows whats shes writing about because shes not only talking the talk, she is walking the walk. Mid life can be a minefield of changes, emotions and challenges. Mid-Life Career Rescue is not just about job change it is a valuable reference book for midlife. The times you get confused or overwhelmed at which road to take, pick up this book and Cassandras skillful work will guide your way. Practical, intuitive, easy to use exercises provide clarity and encourage conscious thinking about your choices. At a point where I desired positive change in my life it helped me build confidence, strengthened awareness of my skills, and taught me how to think bigger in order to have more of what I wanted. After reading this book and applying the practical strategies, I stopped digging my toes in and began to see myself and my business in a more positive and expanded light. As a midlifer in self employment I can highly recommend to anyone that is no longer willing to 'settle' and ready for change no matter what transitional stage you're at.
    One person found this helpful
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  • HT
    5.0 out of 5 stars An important book for anyone in a job that is making them physically ill
    Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2015
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    Cassandra Gaisford's book, Mid-Life Career Rescue, puts passion first, exactly where it should be! She gently nudges us out of complacency by reminding us our career doesn't have to be life-draining if we are willing to take time figuring out what we want and the skills we have to actually do it. And then brilliantly she provides all the action steps we need to make a move by asking simple, yet powerful questions to help us find the answers already there inside of ourselves.

    I definitely recommend reading the chapter on stress in her book. I wish I had the valuable information she laid out 15 years ago when I went through a 'brown out'," one step before complete 'burn out.' If I knew what physical signs to look for I would have left that job way earlier than I did. Unfortunately for me I learned the hard way what a stressful job situation can do to you both mentally and physically, but you don't have to. Instead, you just need to read Mid-life Rescue, and follow the advice of Ms. Gaisford.
    4 people found this helpful
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  • The Reflective Reader
    4.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking
    Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2017
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    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.
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  • Kim Tr
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great book on meta-cognition at work, not just for Mid-lifers.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2015
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    Sometimes we are too busy with tasks at work that we got trapped in unless works. The book teaches us to step back and re-assess our feelings and skills. The book advice technically shows "meta-cognition" in action at the workspace.

    There are many useful assessment tests and tools mentioned in the book. One of my favorites is use gratitude to counter the negative thinking and shift the energy around. I found the chapter about creativity (clone yourself and create combo career) eye-opening as well. The majority of the book leverages visualization to overcome the challenges. Different from other visualization technique book I read, the author has successfully layout step by step to visualize a future/career.

    The book title said it's for mid-lifer, but only a handful of chapter dives deeps into mid-lifers. Anyone who is unhappy with their career, at a different age, would be benefit from reading this book.
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  • NorCalFunJunky
    3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but only mildly insightful
    Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2018
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    This book shared some interesting experiences that sparked a mildly inspiring "me too" response, but there were relatively few corresponding insights and treatment of the subject matter primarily basic and anecdotal. I also felt that significant effort was given to attempting to convince the reader of the author's credibility, which detracted from the book's impact. If available, I would give 3.7 stars. :-)
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  • Cindy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Changed my life
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2021
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    I am researching expanding my career options to have more flexibility in my schedule and work from anywhere. Mid-life Career Rescue has been a great resource for me at this time of exploration and research. The exercises helped to bring clarity to where I am in life and what I need to do to reach my goal. I found value in all the antidotal information, helping me to see that I am not the only person in later mid-life to value time, relationships and the need to use my years of experience to focus on continued personal growth through helping others. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is looking to expand their career options.
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  • Kai Turner
    2.0 out of 5 stars Could be useful
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2023
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    Took the first test to find that career only moderately sucks. May need to reassess.
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  • Melita Vlatko-Rulo
    5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic resource if you want to find clarity in a career change
    Reviewed in Australia on November 10, 2015
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    Author Cassandra Gaisford wants people to realise that whatever age you are or circumstances you’re in, achieving a “Mid-Life Career Rescue” is absolutely possible. She talks about how you can use your age as an advantage, enabling you to increase your confidence and belief in yourself and prepare you for positive change.

    Whether you’re in a job you can’t stand, you’ve been made redundant or you feel you have no choice but to stay in a job you don’t like, Cassandra gives simple strategies to discover what you want to do, make it a reality and find the job you love.

    She gives some fantastic tips for working out what you do and don’t want to indicate the types of jobs that would give you more satisfaction. Also helpful ways to change the way you feel about the job you’re currently in by shifting from negative self-talk to positive and seeing obstacles as learning experiences.

    Cassandra gets you to question how you think and feel about things and gives you action tasks, techniques and quizzes to gain more clarity. What really resonates with me and I also believe is extremely important, is how she encourages meditation and passion journaling throughout the process and believes that by training your mind, shaping your attitude and actively participating in life creates happiness, in addition to doing what you're passionate about.

    A fabulous tool for anyone thinking about changing careers or just wanting to be happier in the job you’re in, why you work on building something that you’re truly passionate about.
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  • Louisa
    5.0 out of 5 stars This book is also for people in their 20s, 30s or 40s
    Reviewed in Canada on November 11, 2015
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    It's never too early or too late to have a career change. The author, as a virtual coach in this book, guides us by using Action Tasks, Quizzes and Journal Writing to show us how to reach for our dreams. Is it time for you to quit your job? Please take "The ready to quit quiz" at the end of this book to find out.
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  • avidreader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great advice for anyone thinking that there is something else ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2016
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    Great advice for anyone thinking that there is something else out there for them to do - to feel passionate about and succeed in.
    Inspirational and practical in equal measure, Gaisford provides quick and insightful quizzes to raise self awareness and clear advice on how to go from stressed and disillusioned to passionate and committed in work.
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great advice and really useful for everyone who's going through ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2015
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    Great advice and really useful for everyone who's going through a transition in their career - either through their own choice or because of circumstances. It was easy to read, lots of great hints that i'll be using as I'm at a crossroads in my career.
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