The Joy of Not Working While Unemployed at 38

Here is the latest e-mail that I received about my international bestseller The Joy of Not Working which has now sold over 225,000 copies and has been published in 17 languages (soon 18 with a Bulgarian edition to be released in the next year).

----- Original Message -----
From: Gunther B.
To: vip-books (at) telus.net
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:16 PM
Subject: The Joy of Not Working



Hi Ernie

I bought your book The Joy of Not Working today at Value Village here in Calgary (a signed copy too!). It's an amazing coincidence, in that I was laid off from Shell Canada (Oilsands) yesterday; I'm only 38.

Anyway, I can't see myself working again for such a top-heavy, beaurocratic monstrocity again. They really do not care about you the individual. I put in a lot of effort and contribution to the project and this is what I get in return. These huge bohemoths boast about their record profits every year, but they have no problem letting go the worker-bees (who make them their profits).

Anyway, I started reading your book tonight and it's great! Just what I needed, thanks. I'm so excited about continuing with it tomorrow.

Thanks so much for your insight and open-mindedness.

Best regards
Gunther

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• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your biggest life achievement was: "Won a contest for building toothpick bridges in junior high school."
• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if having to work in a corporation for 5 or 6 more years will make a mockery of your life.
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If you are looking for a retirement job to help you with your retirement plan, here are some tell-tale signs that you should read my latest book Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations:

• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your retirement plan is a shopping cart with good winter tires.


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• You don't need Career Success Without a Real Job if you have on a résumé stated, "I can adapt to just about any environment from cubicles to fancy IKEA desks."


• You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your biggest life achievement was: "Won a contest for building toothpick bridges in junior high school."

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First Two Copies of Career Success Without a Real Job Worth $410

On April 4 I donated 2 copies of Career Success Without a Real Job to the One Child's Village Fundraiser and Charity Auction .

The copies had been Fed Exed from Transcontinental Printing in Quebec so that I could have them in time for the Event.

The organizers were going to give the two copies out as door prizes but I insisted that they include the copies in the live auction, which was going to have only one main item.

The main item of a Edmonton Oilers toy box with a lot of goodies brought in $225.

I suggested to the organizers that they auction my books so that the highest bidder would get the first copy which I would autograph and designate as the Number 1 copy.

The second highest bidder would get the second copy which I would autograph and designate as the Number 2 Copy.

Guess what? Copy #1 sold for $210; Copy #2 sold for $200.

Final Result: My two copies of Career Success Without a Real Job brought in a total of $410, which was more than the main live aution item or any other of the items in the silent auction.