Living Life Without Comprises: Grindhopper: Building A Rewarding Career Without Paying Your Dues by Laura Vanderkam

        Life is too short for compromises. If you ever felt this way, you most probably are a grindhopper, a free thinker who has decided to work outside a 9 to 5 job. Years ago, grindinghopping meant being in the big bad world of starving with sardines, living with your nagging mother forever, and raised eyebrows whenever you meet your peers. Working for yourself is still not easy but technology has opened the doors to people who would not have it any other way. Author Launder Vanderkam is one of them and her book is a love song to anyone who has doodled, knitted, blogged, belly danced, and sang his way to success.
   Her book Grindhoppers serves as wellspring of hope for entrepreneurs who feel that the world has decided to place them in the cuckoo’s nest. There are tons of stories from wealthy grindhoppers. These characters range from soccer moms who turned domestic life into dollars to brash young lawyers who took the law into their own hands. The formula for success is never clear cut for grindhoppers but this is also the reason behind their success. These upstarts love playing in unpaved paths because they reap the benefits of making the road in the first place.
     As varied and colorful are their stories, Vanderkam neatly ties the virtues common to all entrepreneurs even if most of them don’t want to be described as disciplined for it suggest a corporate character . She lists 7 virtues of the grind weary.  These are being your boss, knowing your goals, seeing risks as benefits, working with projects and not one job, results driven, everything is negotiable, and having a network. If you agree to any of these truths, you might be grindhopper. So I suggest you start hopping while I find a way to end this blog better ! ☺

Website:http://www.grindhopper.com