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If it's time to be moving on to a new career, yet you can't seem to get going, advice from career consultant Andrea Kay may be what you need. Enter Life's a Bitch and Then You Change Careers: Nine Steps to Get You Out of Your Funk and on to Your Future. This workbook will help you find work that's more fitting for the person you are. Guiding you through systematic self-reflection, exercises and checklists, Life's a Bitch will enable you to find challenging and meaningful work that will use your strengths and fit your values, personality, life and future.

Kay shares insights on thinking about and overcoming some of the factors that can inhibit you as you seek your new career, be they fear of change, the nagging inner voice asking "what if I fail?" and "what will others think?" or financial issues. If you're looking for the energy infusion to get going, this book may be it.

Ellen R. Marsden writes from Mason, Ohio.