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How the Careershifters Guide that I wrote ended up helping ME change career!

By Selina Barker on 30 August 2009 at 15:24 in ShiftLogs

After my week's holiday, when I spent my time writing the Careershifters Guide and got to live out my ideal career and lifestyle, work got more unbearable. It wasn't the fault of the people there, or the job. It was a great company and a great job, it just wasn't the job for me and now it stood in stark contrast to that week where I'd got to work in the way I dreamed of. More

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