Do you spend a lot of time thinking about How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business?

If you do, then you’re probably unhappy with one of the following:

• Your job
• Your salary
• Your lack of freedom
• Your limitations in your job

There are more and more people looking for ways to start their own business.  Especially since  technology has changed the job market drastically and there are so many “unemployed” and “under-employed” people or those who are simply staying in a job they hate just for security.

Sound familiar?

The problem with staying in a job just for “security” is that you are giving away the possibility of what could be.  The reason people stay in unhappy jobs and situations is because they don’t have the answer to what could be.  And we all know that our fear of the unknown is huge.

I was teaching a class years ago called “Quit Your Job and Follow Your Dreams” and I had an attorney in the class who said, “Michelle, I have a 6-figure corporate job and even though I hate it, I just can’t leave.  I’m not like you, I’m not a risk taker.”

Well, that’s one way of looking at it.  This attorney interpreted leaving the Read More…

If you love your job, great!  But if you don’t, here are my Top 10 Reasons to Quit Your Day Job!

Trust me. You need to begin planning your EXIT STRATEGY Now!  The old game is over.  You know, the one where you work 40 years, pick up a paycheck for far less than you’re worth, retire and get your gold watch.  Now, with the bad economy, companies are using that as an excuse to fire or “let go of” disposable employees.  The ones they consider dead weight.  I hate to be so blunt, but it’s true.

Wouldn’t you rather control your own destiny, than leave it to the corporate powers that be?

Times are tough!  We hear that phrase over and over since the real estate bubble burst in 2007 causing immense financial challenges and losses to the masses.  However, in these “tough” times, I just took off 2 months to move my house and my family.  I am grateful I had the freedom to do that as I can’t imagine having to move a 5,000 square foot house while having to report to a day job.

What I think is really tough though are people that have day jobs and rely on just one source of income, with no freedom at all for life’s unexpected events, who work in a love-less job, earning just enough to get by and paying Uncle Sam almost half of what they make!

I’m hear to tell you…there is a better way!

Here are my top 10 reasons why you should Quit Your Day Job: Read More…

Do you need Career Help?  Are you thinking of leaving your job?  Do you feel like you’re in “Cubicle Prison”?

Wouldn’t it be a tragedy if you actually quit your job only to discover down the road that you didn’t actually want to quit your job, you simply needed a little CPR: “Career Path Resuscitation“?

There is a possibility that if we just altered some things about our jobs, we would actually want to stay.  Perhaps we like some aspects of our job, but it’s just that we:

• Hate our boss;
• Hate the pay;
• Hate the hours;
• Hate some of our duties;
• Hate the location;
• Hate our co-workers.

What you need is a Job Autopsy!

Doing a “JOB AUTOPSY” on your current job can help for 2 reasons:

1. To see if some positive changes were implemented, you might want to stay in your current job;
2. To help you take steps to improve your current job situation so that you will be happier at least for the time being while you have to work there until the day comes (hopefully soon) when you can actually quit your job and follow your dreams.

Either way, it’s a win/win proposition for you.  To believe that your workplace is solely responsible for your happiness is to Read More…

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These days you might not have to “quit your job” as there’s a good chance you might be laid off, fired or asked to take extended periods of furlough (leave WITHOUT pay).  However,  if you’re in a job that you hate, despise, resent, or simply one that you are only there to pick up a paycheck, then what you need is a good “exit strategy.”

I exited the corporate world in 2000 when I was given the pink slip at a law firm I worked at.  They told me they were “restructuring the department” I was in and that was it.  At that time (2000) I had been in the legal field 17 years, was absolutely miserable, and was there because I had 3 young children to support being a single mom and didn’t feel I had many other options.  I was there simply to pick up a paycheck as my heart was not in that job.  The biggest obstacle I had was that I didn’t know what else I wanted to do.

I do believe that if we are working in a job that does not involve us using our God-given gifts, then the Universe will create a  situation to help us get back to our true path.  Your true path is where you take your gifts and you share them with the world.

You have a special gift?  Yes, you…

That is the absolute truth.  In fact, you may have several gifts.  The question is – are you using your gifts and sharing them with the world or are you hiding them?

I don’t know what your specific gifts are, but you do.  Chances are good, however, that Read More…

One of my best friends who I’ve known since Junior High School was visiting this past weekend and we were talking about happiness.  She said that she was “content”, but not really happy.  So I asked a few more questions and discovered that since all 3 of her adult children were now moved out on their own, she was now by herself and was perhaps feeling a void in her life.  My friend said all she does is work, visit her grandchildren and help her dad take care of her mother who has health problems.  We got into a conversation about her work as an Addictions Counselor (which she has done for over 20 years) and she agreed that it wasn’t her “passion”, but it was a “good job” that paid the bills.

It’s not that I’m against good jobs that pay the bills, it’s just that I’m more for finding your passion and getting paid to play!

I’m working on an eBook right now titled “Never Work Again:  6 Secrets to Getting Paid to Play & Doing What You Love!”

For my eBook, I’m interviewing Women who get paid to play and I wanted to share some of those stories with you today to give you inspiration and motivation that if you’re not feeling fulfilled in your career, that there is another way.  Here’s a few stories to give you some ideas as well as hope that you too can GET PAID TO PLAY!

KIM PARSELLS TOOK A LEAP OF FAITH AND NEVER LOOKED BACK!



In 1995 I was working full-time as a graphic artist at Read More…