Life Without Work

Life Without Work: A time for change, growth and personal transformation

Life Without Work by Christine Ingham
Whether bank clerk, steel worker, school leaver or solicitor, we will all at some time in our lives find ourselves without work, whether for two months or two years; whether because of unemployment, disability, redundancy, retirement or even choice.  This book is for everyone who is faced with this important life challenge.

Christine Ingham reveals how circumstances in what might be a difficult, even distressing time can be harnessed and used as agents of change, growth, and personal transformation; a window of opportunity through which comes a chance to begin shaping your new life.

Life Without Work aims to provide a springboard for your own ideas and new starting points, while also addressing how to deal with the more difficult issues which can present themselves.  It will help you discover your ability to transform your own ‘life without work’ into a welcome new beginning.

Of the first edition:

‘A useful and well-written book which I shall urge our clients to read.’  Stephen Johnson, Chairman, Coutts Career Consultants Ltd

‘It is a real pleasure to find such positive thinking about the opportunities afforded by a period of unemployment, without ever losing sight of financial constraints.  This book is a must for the newly redundant.’  Nick Hawkins, Chairman, Interexec Plc

‘This book … may well become the reference for all people who find themselves not working.’  John Goodhead, formerly of The Prince’s Youth Business Trust
Christine says:
"It was the early 1990’s and the UK's economic downturn was beginning to bite.  Coal mines were closing, employment practices were changing and redundancy became a spectre haunting many a workplace.  For all but a few it seemed like a job for life was a thing of the past.

Out of this came
Life Without Work: A time for change, growth and personal transformation.  So topical was it that on publication it became a front page news item on The Independent newspaper.  Suddenly everyone wanted to find out more.  Radio and television enquiries came thick and fast,  including an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour with Jenni Murray.

Although times have changed, a life without work is still something which we all need to prepare ourselves for.  Even if we manage to remain fully employed throughout our working lives we still share the prospect of retirement up ahead and along with it yet a another sort of life without work."


Now fully revised, Life Without Work is now available as an e-book from Amazon.
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