You might call this an emergency, WTF-am-I-doing-with-my-career kit. Or, a let’s-not-commit-suicide-at-work kit. Or, a dear-baby-jesus-how-did-my-life-turn-out-to-be-such-a-crock-o-sh*t kit. (Which totally rhymes.)
It’s for the people who feel lifeless, uninspired, confused, crazed, uncertain, frustrated, and really can’t stand one more minute working a job they hate while barely scraping by and wishing death upon the chipper 18-year-old intern over by the copy machine. (Mostly because her nails perfectly match her outfit and WHO HAS THE ENERGY FOR THAT, ANYMORE?)
Bottom line: you’re disillusioned. Burnt out. Restless. Daydreaming about doing something interesting and creative and challenging and wonderful with your career—but not knowing what that is, or how to get there.
It’s part guidebook, part workbook, and part audio book. For those who yearn for a worthy pursuit; to do something that makes them proud; to earn great money living their dream, writing books and selling art and teaching others and doing what makes them happy—whatever that may be—while contributing something meaningful to this world. In the name of freedom. And creativity. And desire. And travel. And exhilaration. And being able to feel like you lived your life, instead of watch it pass you by.
Do it for yourself. Do it for your family. Do it for your fucking soul.
The Unf*ckwithable Woman learns how to take her career into her own hands…and GO, GO, GO.
And as to where she’s going?
Well, this kit knows secrets that not even she does…yet.
( take THAT, children / spouse / boss / life / angry neighbor / needy puppy / Angelina Jolie )
Lexi is a mom of three who’s content with her life overall (her walk-in closet is BANGIN’), but feels like she somehow lost herself in the process of getting married, having kids, and now being a wife / parent / daughter / sister / friend / neighbor / martyr and every role under the sun EXCEPT for the most important one of all: Caretaker of herself.
For a long time now, she’s put her own needs on the back burner, and always figured one day she’d “get around to” rebooting her career—or even a hobby, at this point—but as more time goes by, the more exhausted and overwhelmed she feels. How can she take time for herself when there IS NONE? How is she supposed to get her life back when she can’t even get a minute to poop? She needs a change, and soon. But HOW?
Ava’s dream is to travel the world—ideally working as a videographer for Anthony Bourdain hopping around nibbling pig snouts—but her job keeps her strapped to a desk, and she has to use her measly one week vacation to go home to visit her parents. (Not that she has to, but, you know.)
Ava feels like life is passing her by as she stares at the same screen, at the same desk, doing the same uninspiring job, over and over and over and over again. Lately she’s been dreaming of volunteering in exotic lands, making friends from around the world, and doing something interesting with her life. Alas, bills don’t pay themselves. So for now, she’s relegated herself to her day job (“it is what it is”), always telling herself that “someday” she’ll figure it out. For now, though, she’ll just “try to be grateful.” <—And this is when she gags.
Violet spent her twenties working odd secretarial jobs—even though she has an English degree, and secretly always wanted to be a writer. You know, like HEMINGWAY HOT.
The thing is, she couldn’t get a job in publishing, or even at the newspaper, (or even that scammy “marketing” agency) so in order to make ends meet, she just sort of “fell into” her admin job. But…she dreads it. OH, does she dread it. And she’s been doing it for way longer than she planned. It’s not that the work is particularly challenging, but that’s half the problem. She knows she’s wasting her potential—she’s even embarrassed to tell anybody what she does—but she has no idea how to get a job in anything else, especially since now her resume is full of administrative jobs. Unless she wants to become a career secretary, Violet knows she needs a change, and soon. But HOW?
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Must. Stop. Writing. To. Shower. Before. It's. 2. P. M. And. I. Am. A. Stinky. Sloppy. Mess. #firstworldproblems
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Author, CEO & Founder of the Award-Winning Blog, The Middle Finger Project
Professional writer, business woman, smart ass, and founder of the unconventional lifestyle and career website, The Middle Finger Project, Ash Ambirge is on an international mission to help the lost, the confused, the disillusioned and the “how the hell did I become an administrative assistants?” of the world become more unf*ckwithable in their work—and lives—by learning how to trust themselves unflinchingly and build a unique, modern, gloriously independent career using that great, big, free thing we call The Internet.
(The name The Middle Finger Project was just for fun.)
