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This one brings back a lot of memories for me, and not all of them good. Oh, boy. To illustrate, in the (well, very nearly) 30 years since I finished high school, I've worked at a lot of things: concession stand in a local drive-in movie place; manual factory labor; fast-food, veterinary assistance, farm work on dairy, hay, tobacco, and as a professional groom with Thoroughbred horses in Kentucky's bluegrass region and with other horses in other places, in the foothills (the last of which always allows me the joke that I've also been a happy bride too). Since having to stop doing heavy labor, I've hobbied around in the arts world some (painting, writing, photography, digital image manipulation of various kinds, and more), and even won a prize or two as well as having long-term one-person shows here and there.
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Of all of that, earning a wage and grinning over the winnings and trophy ribbons, the details don't matter a whit anymore. There is only tomorrow, and tomorrow, for as long as tomorrows continue. What does matter is the amount of resource one can maintain, and one's relative location.
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Mr. Kurth has a lot of lovely ideas here, and it seems that he has helped a number of people. One needs only to remember that there are limits, as in any other undertaking with both ambition and frustration as components. Mr. Kurth himself has illustrated the awareness of this in his author's statement at the beginning of the book, where he tells of changing locations to start over.
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The best I can say is, to you wishful job seekers out there, the best of you is in you, and if you want it bad enough, you'll find a way. Just like a girl from the foothills found a way into the elite work of the race-horse industry once upon a time. You'll be poor, most likely, without hope of becoming rich, yet if you love the work, you'll be free. That kind of freedom is the best. Good luck to you – I've been in your shoes, and it was no easy road to travel. I, for one, have no regrets.
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Special thanks to Hachette Book Group for the chance to review this interesting self-help book. For information on other books offered or about to be offered by HBGUSA, please visit their website.
. -- The Fireside Reader . Please refer others to this link: http://thefiresidereader.blogspot.com
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