{"id":1413,"date":"2008-09-05T11:42:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T15:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2008-11-17T15:46:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T20:46:37","slug":"time-for-a-career-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"Time for a Career Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like a lot of people working in the corporatesphere, Pamela Skillings<\/a> hated the work she did. As she says in a piece for The New York Times<\/em> this past June<\/a>, she had even begun to adopt a cruel piece of hamster-wheel logic in order to keep herself going into the office every day:<\/p>\n

Like many of my co-workers, I thought I could eventually earn enough money to make up for the fact that I dreaded going to work every day. Then I would be happy, I told myself. The funny thing was that I already had a very happy life outside the office that had nothing to do with my salary. I had a loving husband and great friends who didn\u2019t care how much bacon I brought home.<\/p>\n

But in fact, my high-paying but soul-draining job was beginning to take a toll on my personal life. Nobody enjoys hanging out with a perpetually tired and cranky middle manager.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I wasn\u2019t even taking pleasure in my disposable income. Most of my extra cash went toward medicating my work stress. Because I wasn\u2019t getting satisfaction from my job, I distracted myself with overpriced restaurants, tropical vacations and retail therapy. I traded up to a bigger, nicer apartment, but I didn\u2019t spend much time in it because I was always at the office justifying my paycheck.<\/p>\n

Eventually, I realized that my salary wasn\u2019t worth the emotional price I was paying for it. My compensation package was standing in the way of true success, which for me meant doing work that was meaningful and made me happy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, she quit. If what you’ve just read sounds familiar, maybe you should, too.<\/p>\n

Pamela Skillings is a communications consultant who blogs on how to get out from under the corporate grind<\/a>. She’s also author of the new book, Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pamela’s the guest, today, on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, this afternoon, Friday, September 5, 2 pm ET.<\/p>\n

You can hear her talk about how she made her great escape by tuning in at 2 pm. Then, during the second half of the program, we’ll take your calls.<\/p>\n

If you’re outside of the New York tri-state, you can check out our stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, check out our archive<\/a> for up to two weeks after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like a lot of people working in the corporatesphere, Pamela Skillings hated the work she did. As she says in a piece for The New York Times this past June, she had even begun to adopt a cruel piece of hamster-wheel logic in order to keep herself going into the office every day:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}