Real Success Without a Real Job: There Is No Life Like It by Ernie J. Zelinski

Required Reading for Entrepreneurs and Anyone Who Wants to escape the Corporate World
Nancy Fraser, Marketing Consultant, 08/28/2006

I spent years dreaming about owning my own business and escaping the corporate world. If I had access to the information in this book, I would have started my own business much sooner. Ernie lives what he writes about. Each chapter is another wakeup call. This book provides simple solutions to problems my clients talk about all the time and is one that I recommend they read.

More important than 'how to'...
Leslie Truex (success@workathomesuccess.com), I am a work-at-home consultant, 08/17/2006

After working from home in an 'unjob' for over 8 years, I can tell you that success in any venture has less to do with 'how'. There are 100's of books that tell you 'how to' whether its starting business, retiring or pursuing a dream. But if the 'how to' was all that was needed, everyone would be living their dreams. 'Real Success without a Real Job' can help you put together the other ingredients required to reach success other than the 'how to'. Successful people aren't smarter or luckier. What they do have is a desire to have success that's bigger than their fear, a willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, and don't let the nay-sayers, stream stealers or plain bad luck and disappointment stop them. That's were Ernie's book can help. It's filled with information and resources designed to get you to take action on those 'how to's'. It inspires and motivates you to take stock of your life and create a life that fills you with joy and abundance. It teaches that riches come from living in within your values and being true to yourself. Once you have that, the money and more importantly, happiness and fulfillment will follow. If you are unhappy in your work (or retirement) and want to find something more fulfilling and yes, even fun, this is a great book to help you put in place all the internal ingredients (desire, commitment, persistence, etc), so that you can take action and achieve your dreams.

For those of us who are 'organizationally averse'
A reviewer, A reviewer, 08/15/2006

I read the entire book in less than 24 hours! Just couldn't put it down. As luck would have it, I was embarking on my own path after 25 years in Corporate America when I heard about the book. Real Success Without a Real Job gives sound advice mixed with funny and touching inspirational quotes by those who have achieved great things in life after realizing they too were 'organizationally averse' just like the author Ernie Zelinski. As someone who spent their entire career in marketing, I can very much relate to Chapter 5 about the importance of marketing (which is called 'It's Not Just an Unreal Job - It's a Real Business') and now plan on applying everything I've done for corporations to myself and the small and micro businesses I plan to serve in my start-up marketing consulting firm (as well as the book I've started writing). After all, now I can use all those ideas deemed 'too risky'. Funny, how years later half of those corporations are either now out of business, or were bought out by competitors. Now those bosses have bosses - wonder how they like them apples! As I've always said 'Corporate America is no place for smart people'. Ernie, thank you for a tremendously uplifitng experience and a great book to add to my personal library.