Passion Catalyst Offers Free Career Passion E-book: Dozens of Interviews Yield Five Fundamental Concepts for Finding Career Passion

Career expert and Passion Catalyst Curt Rosengren has published a free e-book based on the insights of dozens of people who have successfully pursued their passions in their careers. The book, titled "The Five Fundamentals of Occupational Adventure," details the five most common career passion success factors.

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) January 11, 2005 - What do you get when you gather the insights and experience of dozens of people who have successfully pursued their passions in their careers? If you add Seattle-based career expert Curt Rosengren to the mix, you get "The Five Fundamentals of Occupational Adventure," a free e-book outlining five key passion pursuit success elements.

Rosengren's e-book comes just in time for the New Year's focus on new careers and new possibilities. In a new Monster.com survey, 93 percent of those questioned said they planned to job-hop in 2005 and 59 percent of the respondents answered that their most important New Year's resolution was to "get a new job."

In the 33-page e-book, Rosengren distills the cumulative insights from interviews with over three dozen people into five elements that have been vital to their success in creating careers that light them up. Rosengren describes a passion-filled career as an Occupational Adventure (sm).

"The more people I interviewed," says Rosengren, "the more I noticed similar trends occurring in their stories. With so many people out there looking for more passion in their career, I wanted to share what I learned."

The Five Fundamentals of Occupational Adventure are:

#1 - Begin within
#2 - Don't go solo
#3 - Chart your course
#4 - Face the fear and doubt
#5 - Hit the road

Some of the people whose interviews this e-book draws from include:

- Richard Tait
Co-founder & Grand Poo Bah, Cranium
- J.A. Jance
Best-selling mystery novelist
- Erik Weihenmayer
Blind climber (who has summited Everest) & motivational speaker
- Richard Bangs
Founding partner of Mountain Travel Sobek and Editor/Producer for MSNBC's Great Escapes series

The Five Fundamentals of Occupational Adventure can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.passioncatalyst.com/download . Rosengren also encourages people to make a $21 donation to the Red Cross if they find the e-book helpful.

Rosengren has also just published "The Occupational Adventure Guide: A travel guide to the career of your dreams," a step-by-step guide to creating a career that energizes and excites you. For each purchase of The Occupational Adventure Guide during the month of January, three dollars will be donated to Red Cross tsunami victim relief efforts.

Rosengren, who describes himself as a Passion Catalyst (sm), helps people find passion in their careers through one-on-one coaching, workshops, public speaking, and writing.

Rosengren's articles appear in Worthwhile magazine, a business/life magazine recently launched by two Wall Street Journal veterans. He has been quoted in articles in New York Newsday, The Toronto Globe and Mail,The Seattle Times, and Monster.com. He has appeared in live in-studio interviews on Seattle's Q13 Fox News, and has written articles for online newsletters such as job.com and net-temps.com.

Rosengren maintains a career passion blog called The Occupational Adventure, which can be seen at http://blog.occupationaladventure.com. His passion insights have come through clients, interviews with dozens of people who have successfully pursued their passions, and his own career transformation experience.

For more information on Curt Rosengren and his passion work, see:
home: http://www.passioncatalyst.com
blog: http://blog.occupationaladventure.com

Contact:
Curt Rosengren
Passion Catalyst International
206-282-8064
http://www.passioncatalyst.com

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