How to Break Free from Your Day Job and Live Your Passion

This is a guest post from Kary Oberbrunner, author of Day Job to Dream Job . He left his day job to help individuals and organizations discover and live their passion. You can follow him on Twitter.

You might be familiar with The Shawshank Redemption. Remember the storyline? Andy Dufresne, innocent of any crime, is saddled with a life sentence in Shawshank Prison. The experience nearly kills him and his hope for freedom.

I filtered the movie through my own experience. Stuck in my day job, I felt imprisoned from my potential. Although I loved the people I served and worked with, I felt captive from my creativity. Slowly over the years, I accepted my own life sentence. I thought it was easier to let my dreams die than to keep hoping for freedom.

But that’s not what Andy did. He escaped. And eventually I did, too.

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