Trapped By Your Salary - Get the Job of Your Dreams In 12 Steps

By Francine Orr and Karen Wilson

Are you trapped in a job that doesn’t suit or fit you? Do you wish you could move on but don’t know where to start? Trapped By Your Salary will take you from Trapped By Your Salary to the Job Of Your Dreams in just 12 steps. This workbook is for anyone who is ready to move from where they are now to where they want to be. Combining techniques from Business and Personal Coaching, Neuro Linguistic Programming and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Trapped By Your Salary is filled with insights and exercises to allow you to take control. Over 12 steps you will take a good look at yourself from your skills and abilities to how you dress, sound and present yourself. This is the journey of a lifetime.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jun 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781326590314

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Trapped By Your Salary - Get the Job of Your Dreams In 12 Steps

Praise for Trapped By Your Salary

Trapped By Your Salary is a great guide to help you get your dream job! It covers everything you need to know to get your dream job in 12 simple steps; from identifying what your dream job is and how you can apply your existing skills, to writing your CV, to interview preparation and more. Great exercises and a methodical, easy to follow approach. It's like having your own career adviser in your pocket!

Lara Brockie, Director

Lara Brockie Coaching

If you have ever wondered about getting out of your current job for whatever reason then Trapped By Your Salary is a must read. Francine and Karen take you step by step through a process from what money do I actually need? to celebrating your success in getting the job of your dreams. There are a lot of insights gained about yourself by working through the exercises. In particular, I loved the way it seemed as if Francine and Karen were talking to me, about me.

Beverly Kepple, Business Owner and author of

DISCovering the Ultimate Tool

This book makes you realise that not only do you have choices, but you can take control of them too!

Fiona Jones, Owner,

theWire Magazine

This book is packed from cover to cover with good advice that will make sure you get The Job of your Dreams. Invest in yourself invest in a copy of this book.

Wendy Turner, Director

Barony Players

It’s full of really useful, practical advice on achieving your goal.  I took a great deal from it, things that I will continue to benefit from in the long term.

Linda Martin, Owner,

La Ronda

Trapped By Your Salary:

Get The Job Of Your Dreams In 12 Simple Steps

Trapped By Your Salary:

Get The Job Of Your Dreams In 12 Simple Steps

Francine Orr and Karen Wilson

Francine Orr and Karen Wilson

2015

Copyright © 2015 by Francine Orr and Karen Wilson

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

First Printing: 2015

ISBN: 978-1-329-59031-4

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Contents

Contents

Foreword

About This Workbook

The Promise

Why Us?

Karen’s Story

Francine’s Story

How Does This Workbook Work?

Who Is this Workbook For and What Are The Benefits?

We Guarantee:

Step 1 - Getting You Started

Step 2 - Is It All About The Money?

Step 3 - The Numbers

Step 4 - Who Do You Think You Are?

Step 5 – Know Your Personal Style

Step 6 - Don’t Send A CV (Book by Jeffrey J Fox)

Step 7 - Ready For Out There

Step 8 - How Do You Sound?

Step 9 – Looking Good

Step 10 - Before You Go For That Interview

Step 11 – The Real Thing

Step 12 – Celebrate!!!!!!

Free Bonus Gifts

Join the Trapped By Your Salary Community

Acknowledgements

About The Authors

Step 13 – Bonus Step

Notes

Foreword

Trapped By Your Salary, get The Job Of Your Dreams in 12 simple steps.  That's a big statement to make, however having read the book I can say that ‘it does what it says on the tin’ (or in this case front cover). Fantastic!

I have read your book cover to cover in an e-world. I don't have a kindle and I'm therefore not that great with e-books and to a certain extent this frustrated me. I wanted to have this book in my hand - to smell the new pages waiting for my thoughts, my dreams, and my challenges. And I wanted to write all over it in the pages provided just for this. How wonderful not to have to write in tiny writing in the margin and instead to have a whole great chunk of book dedicated to thoughts, dedicated to feelings, dedicated to me.

And there is an endless wealth of information and knowledge sharing that will motivate, entertain and educate the reader for many weeks on his journey to the dream job.

The book is jam-packed with practical tips and ideas too. Of course it is a question of trying them on and seeing what fits. There are plenty to choose from so it’s up to the reader to explore this - they might be surprised at what they find if they open themselves up to all possibilities.

Trapped By Your Salary to The Job of Your Dreams - Karen and Francine have it covered and will support you every step of the way. 

They show you how a dream-job-conception to interview, and beyond can become a reality.  Their step by step workbook unfolds to become a reference book you will want to treasure for many years to come.

Heather Borderie

Operations Director, Glendoick Garden Centre

About This Workbook

You are holding this workbook in your hands for four reasons:

Because you would like to change something in your life. To have something different, a new job, any job, more money, better circumstances.

Because we have successfully created a format to help you get The Job Of Your Dreams.

Working with you where you are now. Dealing with your current circumstances and building a plan to help you move from here to where you want to be. Focusing on you, your dreams and your unique talents.

We three are now a team; you, Karen and Francine.  We are all now focused on YOUR success.

The workbook will fit perfectly into your life. It will support you to move forward to The Job Of Your Dreams.

The workbook is designed both around you and to be responsive to you, your needs and your preferences.

Please be absolutely certain that there is enough space in this workbook to make any notes you want to make. We also know some people prefer not to write in their books, so if this is you why not buy a beautiful notebook to make notes or jot down your thoughts and ideas. Or download the accompanying workbook for free at www.trappedbyyoursalary.net/freebies

Working together you will benefit from our combined experience and skills.

We work to support you in achieving your goals and dreams.

Just think what you could achieve if you thought anything was possible.

Well....anything is possible if you believe it is.

We are now working with you and supporting you until you are on your way.

Francine and Karen

The Promise

Very simply we promise a clear step by step guide.

These steps are designed to take you from here to there.  We cover where HERE is and where THERE is in Step 1.

All you need to do is take these steps

We also cover the commitment to take these steps in Step 1.

If you accept the three parts to this promise;

You will move from Trapped By Your Salary to The Job Of Your Dreams, the job you always wanted

AND

You will be supported by us, your biggest fans, ambassadors and cheerleaders, until you become your own No 1 fan, ambassador and cheerleader.

Why Us?

Because we have both been where you are now, Trapped By Our Salaries and we have moved on to find jobs we love, The Jobs Of Our Dreams.

Because we now successfully help others with tools, tips, techniques and strategies to find the success they seek.

We know about the successes along the road as well as the setbacks, we both encountered major road works and obstacles on the way and we overcame them to get to The Jobs Of Our Dreams.

Karen’s Story

I can clearly remember walking home from school one lunchtime, I was living in a new town in Buckinghamshire, I was with three school friends; we were talking about what we wanted to be when we left school. One wanted to be a nurse, her mum and sisters were nurses and it was a natural talent for their family. She did indeed become a nurse and she continues to be an esteemed leader in her now specialised field of nursing. Another was to join the army to become a chef (we spent his 16th birthday celebrating his last evening with us before the left).  He became my daughter’s godfather. The third, as I recall, was to become a forensic pathologist, we have since lost touch. She may be Trapped By Her Salary, she may be very happy. When I think of her I always wish her well.

For my part, I was going to be a psychologist or a psychiatrist even though I didn’t know the difference at the time. All I knew was that I wanted to help people to Think Better so they could Do Better and therefore ultimately Have Better.

Of course, my then teenage self didn’t know about the real world or if it was possible to earn a living helping people think, do and have better. So I travelled the traditional route of college, paid employment, taking professional qualifications and paying the rent.

In my 20s I became a single parent and I still didn’t know if I could earn a living doing what I loved. I was continuing to go through the motions, good salary, £1m+ annual targets, company car, mortgage, stage school fees and so on.

I too have been Trapped By My Salary.

But it wasn’t my love. My own personal time was spent in the world of personal development because it spoke to me, it made me happy and I knew that if I was ever going to be happy in my work I would need to get out of the job I was in. So I did. 2004, cold turkey, I became self-employed. I do not recommend this route.

I have done many things since then (including a stint of going back to my previous industry as an employee) and including quite often getting in my own way.

I tell you this because I am now doing the work I love and am no longer Trapped By My Salary. I have taken all my experience, and that of others and successfully created a format to help people Get That Job, The Job Of Their Dreams, so that you do not, go cold turkey, return forlorn to your previous industry, or get in your own way.

The path has been made clear for you to move easily and seamlessly, a step at a time, from being Trapped By Your Salary to The Job Of Your Dreams.

Francine’s Story

As a child, I always had a dream that one day I would be a celebrated actress. I worked hard and took every opportunity to polish my skills.  I entered festivals and won prizes for performance and speaking before leaving school and heading off to Drama College in Edinburgh. Even then, I saw the enormous benefits that drama skills and techniques like visualisation and role play, could bring to people.  So, while I was keen to act, I never missed an opportunity to use my newly emerging skills to work with and empower others.

While at college I worked as a volunteer running drama groups for people who were experiencing mental health issues.  The techniques were positive and useful in giving people space