Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1647 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Dan Miller is the president of The Business Source, which specializes in creative thinking for personal and business development. As a coach, speaker and frequent radio and TV guest (Such as the CBS `Today Show' in 2005), Dan shares his process for positioning one's work to develop an overall focused, balanced and truly successful life. Dan Miller publishes a weekly newsletter on careers that as of March, 2006 boasts over 75,000 subscribers, many of whom also tune in to his monthly Tele-Classes. His flagship book, 48 Days To The Work You Love is in it's 5th printing after only 1 year in publication.

Customer Reviews

Contains a lot of interesting anecdotes
This book was recommended by Dave Ramsey as a great book to read if you have questions about finding the work you love.
It does contain a lot of interesting anecdotes, but I was disappointed by the amount of actual information in it. Maybe I just didn't read it closely enough, but I found myself simply not caring to read one short story after another about so-and-so's fictional life.

Disappointed...
While the book has some great quotes and stories of individuals dissatisfied with their jobs (many of which I could relate), the layout of the book is hodge-podge. Meaning, there is no step by step instructions on how to obtain your dream job. I did not buy the book, thankfully, just checked it out from the library.

I cannot recommend the book as being useful for those seeking a job/career/vocation that they will truly enjoy.

Didn't love it
It's such a great concept I know and I really wanted to love this book but alas, I didn't. Think about your life and what you're doing. The amount of money you need to support your family and then think, can I afford to do what I love? After reading several book in this genre I decided that the time for me to do what I love is in my free time and when I retire. For now, there are very real decisions to make and what I would love to do is only going to have me driving a '73 AMC Pacer to my studio apartment and people, that's not what I want to be doing. I do appreciate the sentiment Mr. Miller conveys but just don't find it to me applicable to the average american...