Do you feel this unexplainable tug in your gut that says, “No, it is really not okay for you to ask me to squelch my passion and creative energy to fit a decades-old mold of what a 20-something in the workplace looks like”?

Feel it? If so, you also probably give some thought to settling for boring projects, pointless memos and the lack of a social life because folks are telling you it is the only way you can make a name for yourself. You think about it, you might even do it. But you don’t like it.

Turns out you aren’t alone and someone has written a book about you.

Thanks to my hubby, I am reading Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk. I totally dig it because it makes me feel better about my inability to “take what I am given” or be satisfied by “the honor” of working somewhere. I am lucky to now have a job that is both challenging and creatively fulfilling. Until I had this gig something just didn’t fit, so I job-hopped until it found me. According to this book — that isn’t anything to feel bad about.

I needed to hear that. Do you? If so, you can get a daily dose of this stuff on her blog. It covers everything from job-hopping to kids and daily exercise. And she actually reads all of the comments, too!