What the Heck Am I Going to Do with My Life?

by Margaret Feinberg

One of the top struggles listed by twentysomethings is the fight to find a purpose and a calling. They find themselves studying a major or working in a job they do not really enjoy, and soon self-doubt surrounds, bombarding them with questions such as, What am I doing? Shouldn't I have this figured out by now? and Am I the only one who doesn't get it? Written by acclaimed Twentysomething author Margaret Feinberg, this book takes readers on a soul-searching journey that gets to the heart of their passions, talents, abilities, and life goals.

Genres: Self Help, Personal Development, Nonfiction

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 23, 2006

About the author

A self-described "hot mess," Margaret Feinberg is a popular Bible teacher and speaker at churches and leading conferences such as Catalyst, Thrive, and Women of Joy. Her books, including The Organic God, The Sacred Echo, Scouting the Divine, and Wonderstruck and their corresponding Bible studies, have sold nearly one million copies and received critical acclaim and extensive national media coverage from CNN, the Associated Press, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and more.

She was recently named one of 50 women most shaping culture and the church today by Christianity Today, one of the 30 Voices who will help lead the church in the next decade by Charisma magazine and one of the ’40 Under 40’ who will shape Christian publishing by Christian Retailing magazine. Margaret lives in Morrison, Colorado, with her husband, Leif, and their superpup, Hershey. She believes some of the best days are spent in jammies, laughing, and being silly.

Reviews

[J.G. Keely]

Someone gave me this because I was truly in the throes of an existential crisis. Unfortunately, between the golly-gee attitude and the 'you are special because you are average' mantra, I found this book only made the situation worse.

The optimistic inanity of the author simply made me realize that the source of my depression is people like her. I really feel no human connection for the sort of person who would actually be inspired by this empty, little book.

[Whitney Thomson]

I love the stories used in this book of people discovering their purpose in life but i still don't know what the heck am i going to do with my life. lol.

[Paul]

The book reads like a conversation, which makes it easy to read and pleasantly casual, but I feel that it's missing some of the depth that I found in other books related to being a twenty-something person (like Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties). The little "quiz yourself" questions at the end of each chapter reminded me of a devotional book, and gave it the same sort of easy-solution feel, which seemed especially ironic considering the fact that the book is about a time of life when easy solutions are nowhere to be found.

[Laura]

I liked this book. No, it won't answer your life crisis for you, but it definitely gave me more focus and direction to the questions in my life right now. The first part of the book was slow, but once I got into it, it was really easy to read. I recommend just sitting down in an afternoon and knocking this one out.

[juli]

Some good advice, but too much of it was derived from her religion; such that nonreligious me had to skip over quite a lot. Didn't really help much in the end.