6 Best Blogs For Helping You Find A Passionate Career
October 27th, 2008 | By: Lindsay | Category: Finding Your Passion | 4 Comments »Photo shapeshift
When you’re struggling to find your passion, sometimes it helps to have encouragement along the way.
With that in mind, Ian and I have been sifting through endless websites to bring you the top 6 blogs for helping you find your perfect career, or at least help you in the right direction.
So here they are, drum roll please… (in no particular order)
1. Employee Evolution
“Employee Evolution is dedicated to helping the millennial generation answer the hard-hitting questions that come with the biggest transition of our lives.”
While visually, the website delivers a simple design, the content is worth it. Employee Evolution speaks to the Gen-Y culture with conviction and helpful hints and tips for finding your career passion.
2. Brazen Careerist
Part of the Brazen Careerist blog group, Penelope Trunk began her post-secondary life as a professional beach volleyball player and since then she’s been through an acquisition, an IPO and bankruptcy and come back to become a columnist for the Boston Globe.
Her blog delivers advice “at the intersection between work and life” concisely and efficiently while coming from a refreshing female perspective.
3. Pursue The Passion
A website designed to attack the problem that nearly 50% of the population is not satisfied with their job, and addresses the issue by interviewing people who are propelled by a love for their work. The website is pleasing to the eye and easy to navigate while delivering the information promised in the title.
4. The Happiness Project
A comprehensive look at what it could take to make each of us happy, and while most of us see “the feel better formula” as a bit too inside the box, Gretchen acts as an insightful compass for the direction of your passion.
5. My Gen Y Life
“Impressions and happenings of a twenty-something career gal” Melanie Lopez writes about a lighter, humorous look at life spent within the confines of an office, while offering helpful tips about a life on salary including, “The Secret to Winning Over Your Boss” and “How to Tell Your Boss You’re Pregnant.”
6. Escape From Corporate America
An easy to navigate website with larger than life wisdom on how to retreat from a life in a cubicle. Slightly deterring, are the numerous esoteric mentions of the NBC hit “The Office,” but if you love the show and everything it represents then this may just be your haven.
“Our work lives are too long. We can’t sit in a job we don’t like for fifty years, it makes no sense. If we hate our jobs, we have to leave them, that’s our responsibility to ourselves.” -Paul Lieberstein (Toby Flenderson, The Office)
Do you have any favourite “find your passion” blogs we missed? Share in the comments!
Hey Lindsay,
Welcome to the One Week Job family! Thanks for mentioning both Employee Evolution and Brazen in your post.
I’ve been a big fan of Sean Aiken and Co. since you guys started up. Keep up the good work!
-RP
I’m surprised http://www.newlycorporate.com isn’t on this list. It has great insight from young professionals on the inside.
Kids should be encouraged to start exploring all these wonderful job options at a much earlier age so they can start connecting-the-dots between their schoolwork and finding their passions BEFORE they graduate (or drop out of school.)
Please add our kids-to-careers site to your list so parents and teachers know there are fun and creative ways to negate kids’ perceptions that ‘work’ is four-letter word! http://www.GetCareerWise.com
Am I wrong or does everyone keep looking for a job that gives them more money, more responsibility, more hours, etc. Do any people want to “dumb down” and find work that they can do the last 5 to 10 years that isn’t stressful or demanding. Consider being a Professional Knife Sharpener. Huge satisfaction and double your social security. Does that sound ugly? OK, so it isn’t high tech, you can sit on your computer and play games or blog to your hearts content, or go play with your grandchildren so their parents can work their hearts to death and leave a large inheiritance for the left overs.
Just wondering. Jon at Edgemaster Mobile Sharpening