![]() If you’re not one of the 30 percents of full-time workers truly happy with your job (that’s a Gallup poll figure), I think you’ll want to see what Vigeland and has to say. So even if you think you’re leaving without a net, you probably have some kind of net.” “But most of us have nets friends, family and resources we can tap. “The original title of my book was Leap Without a Net,” she told me over lunch at a Los Angeles hotel. Vigeland’s advice: Leaping is scary - just not as scary as you think. In the book, the married-without-children journalist explains why she did it and, more importantly, how and why you might want to join the leper colony. Now, Vigeland has published Leap: Leaving a Job With No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want, out recently. So pretty much everyone who knew her, or were fans who’d heard about her leap (me included), had a one-word response: Huh? Here’s the thing: At the time, Vigeland was the peppy, sassy, super smart host of public radio’s weekly Marketplace Moneypersonal-finance show. In 2012, in her early 40s, Tess Vigeland did just that. If you’ve been working for more than a few decades, odds are that at least once you’ve been so unhappy you were ready to quit your job without a new job lined up. A chat with ‘Leap’ author and sometime public radio host, Tess Vigeland.
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