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  • Born for This

  • How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do
  • Written by: Chris Guillebeau
  • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
  • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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Born for This

Written by: Chris Guillebeau
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
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Have you ever met someone with the perfect job? To the outside observer, it seems like they've won the career lottery - that by some stroke of luck or circumstance, they've found the one thing they love so much that it doesn't even feel like work, and yet they're getting paid well to do it.

In reality, their good fortune has nothing to do with chance. There's a method for finding your perfect job, and Chris Guillebeau, the best-selling author of The $100 Start Up, has created a practical, actionable guide that can help you turn your passion into paychecks - whether within a traditional company or business, or by striking out on your own.

But finding the work you were "born to do" isn't just about finding your passion. Doing what you love is great, but if you aren't earning a pay check, it's a hobby, not a career. Those who jump out of bed excited to go to work every morning don't just have jobs that tap into their passions. They have jobs where they can lose themselves in the flow of meaningful work for hours at a time.

This intersection of joy, money, and flow is key to what Guillebeau will help you find in this book: work perfectly suited to your unique interests, skills, and experiences. Whether by launching a side hustle that turns into a profitable business, "hacking" your dream position within a traditional job or organization, becoming a "DIY rock star" by fashioning an entirely new profession around your varied interests, or building your own mini empire as an entrepreneur, this book will show you how to find that one job or career that feels so right, it's like you were born to do it.

©2016 Chris Guillebeau (P)2016 Chris Guillebeau

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Well narrated basics

The narrator was great, very clear but the book doesn't bring much more than a basic Google research would. The best parts are the few interesting successful stories here and there in the book.

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I'm rating it as 'It's Okay'.

I like this Author. His side hustle book, I did enjoy. He also fortunately narrated that book. Unfortunately he did not narrate this one.

This book though, the story was okay but a lot of his writing to me feels like 'you may like this, or maybe you'd like that, it's okay, it's up to you and anything and everything could apply'. So it feels like a lot of fluff, a lot of very common sense that we should all know already, and any suggestions are pretty surface value...

However, I did like a lot of his interviews / stories of case study individuals and their experiences. Those were good.

What REALLY loses this audible though is the narrator... it was grueling to listen to. This was not a good choice. The voice, tone, and inflections were incredibly annoying and difficult to tolerate. I did find running the audio speed at 1.25x took a lot of the annoying tone out of this speaker's voice and mannerisms/inflections.

But the narrator definitely loses this audible book a lot of stars on that alone.

Would not recommend this book to others if listening to it in audio format. Maybe it could be better if you read it yourself. I would recommend this Author though, check out his other works.

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