{"id":5044,"date":"2009-09-04T12:32:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T16:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2009-09-04T12:32:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T16:32:33","slug":"you-better-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=5044","title":{"rendered":"You Better Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The most interesting fact about a crappy economy is that it often compels people to finally take chances on long-cherished job dreams. In other words, once it becomes clear that, work-wise, nothing is promised, many people figure, “Why not? What have I got to lose?”<\/p>\n

How do you make the leap, though?<\/p>\n

Pamela Skillings<\/a> was in an occupation she describes as “soul-draining.” As she told <\/em>The New York Times<\/em> last year<\/a>,<\/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

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 book, Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pamela’s the guest, today, in this repeat edition of 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. If you’re outside of the New York tri-state, check out our stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, dig into our archives<\/a> for up to 90 days after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most interesting fact about a crappy economy is that it often compels people to finally take chances on long-cherished job dreams. In other words, once it becomes clear that, work-wise, nothing is promised, many people figure, “Why not? What have I got to lose?” How do you make the leap, though? Pamela Skillings was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,40,47,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044"}],"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=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}