Divorcing Your Job (Paperback)
Marcus J. Cole
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AbeBooks Seller since 29 June 2022
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Add to basketSold by CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 29 June 2022
Condition: New
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketPaperback. You didn't lose a job. You lost the answer to who you are.For high-achieving professionals, career isn't just what you do. After years of promotions, performance reviews, and all-in commitment, it becomes who you are - your self-worth, your social world, your reason for getting up. The system is designed to make it so. And for the most capable, most empathetic, most driven people in any organization, it works. Until it doesn't.Whether you've been hit by a layoff, burned out inside a role that still pays well, or simply realized you've been performing a life you no longer inhabit - what you're experiencing isn't a career problem. It's an identity crisis. And it requires something different from a resume update and a morning routine.Divorcing Your Job names what is actually happening - and provides the specific, evidence-based framework for rebuilding a self that no system can own.You'll discover: Why high performers are the first to be consumed - and why it's not a character flawThe neuroscience of the freeze: why you can't think your way out of career identity collapseHow to grieve what was genuinely real - without being told to "move on" before you're readyThe Identity Portfolio: a six-asset framework for building a self distributed across multiple sources of meaningHow to recognize the Trojan Horse offer - and write a New Contract that no organization can overrideThis book does not end with inspiration. It ends with architecture. Something you can actually use.You were never just the title. It's time to find out who you actually are. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Your worth rises and falls with your last performance review. You answer emails at midnight, call it "ambition," and quietly wonder who you'd even be without the work.
This is career enmeshment — when your identity and your job have fused so completely that slowing down feels like disappearing. It isn't laziness you need to fix. It's a self that got quietly outsourced to your work.
"Divorcing Your Job" is not another list of "set boundaries" and "practice self-care" platitudes. It's a clear, compassionate guide for the recovering high performer — the overachiever, the workaholic, the one burning out while everyone calls you "driven."
Whether you're deep in burnout, dreading Monday, or just sensing that "successful" has started to feel empty, this book helps you come home to a self that exists beyond the work.
You are not your job. This is how you remember that.
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