The basic idea of the book is for the reader to ask themselves a number of stated questions in order to figure out how they should proceed with their working life. The book is fairly short, 128 pages and many pages are lined for the reader to write answers to the questions (which doesn’t work on my Kindle). However, stopping every few pages to write down the answer to a question makes it difficult to get through the book, so I prefer to answer the questions now after having read through the book.

It is directed at people who are unhappy with their current work situation and would like to do something else where they would be happier. It requires some work on part of the reader to answer the questions, but doing so would be helpful.

The book alternates between general sections and sections based on the author’s personal experience. It works, although on reading the book I thought I would rather have had these sections combined into one text. It does however make it easier to find stuff in the book when going back and forth through the pages. In addition, the author could have given a little more detail about his background, e.g. it says that he moved between countries and worked in Brazil, and that he now lives in a small town, but it doesn’t say where he grew up and in which country he resides now.

A summary of the book is that if you want to do something else, perhaps you should figure out a way to do it now, rather than plan to do it way off in the future. If you can decide yourself what to do, it will feel less like work. You need to prepare. You should have a few different small ideas to try out and if one doesn’t work you have the others still.
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Book title and author: You’re Not Your Job: Going Above and Beyond for Yourself by Daniel Voigt Godoy reviewed 4/27/24

Why I picked this book up: I studied and trained for 12 years to become a licensed psychologist. While that is my job, I’m also a Christian, a husband, a father, son, bother, uncle, and friend. When I saw the title I was interested and I was the lucky recipient of the April 2024 batch Early Reviewers giveaway from LibraryThing .com
Media
Ebook
Formats
EPUB, MOBI, PDF
Genres
Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Health & Wellness, Nonfiction
Offered by
dvgodoy (Author)
Batch
April 2024
Starts: 2024-04-01
Ended: 2024-04-25
On Sale
2024-04-
Win Date
2024-04-26
Sent Date
2024-04-27

Thoughts: This is a self help and sort of memoir if this author. It covers things to consider such as the pursuit of happiness, time, money, conformity, employment (job, work, career), choices and procrastination, doubts and fears and the future. It helps focus on our decisions and choices we make.

Why I finished this read: This as a 127 page book that shared the author’s employment transitions, mental focus, STEM, financial compensation, dead-end type feel and the individual decision that we all make. For me it was a reminder of the long term importance of what and who we value and there were many personal questions to answer.

Stars rating: I found this book interesting but did not find it a deep, scientific or rigorous book. I will rate this book in the middle range noting it made me think internally and I rate it at a 3 of 5 stars. ( )