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Holding down an office job, running around after two young boys and training to be a plumber is all in a day's work for supermum, Charmaine Warman. The 36-year-old, from Southend-on-Sea, is proving that you can do it all as she looks after her two sons, works as an admin assistant four days a week and trains to be a plumber.
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Jackie was a lawyer in the city until one day she decided to run with an idea - to set up her own designer handbag company - now her designs are sold all over the world.
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We've asked our expert career coaches to recommend their pick of inspirational books to help get your career change on track. From understanding what makes you tick, to ideas for a portfolio career, we've got a great selection to get you started.
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Nikki Welham, a recent participant in one of Careershifters' Reignite Your Career workshops, tells how taking part in a workshop propelled her from a boring, stuffy office job to her dream job of being a teacher More

Proving that there's really no excuse not to leave behind the Ikea flat packs for full-on carpentry, Kim McGinley bounced back from a bad relationship and a back injury to turn herself from a hairdresser into a one-woman DIY business. More

Author, entrepreneur and provocateur Fred Gratzon explains how the basis of success in your career - and in life - is in doing less rather than more.
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. More

Cracks are forming in the careers veneer. They reveal a stark choice between a career that makes us dumb down and switch of or something that deserves our talent, passion and sense of fun. We can choose to be ltd or un-ltd. More

George Monbiot is the author of the best selling books 'The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order' and 'Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain'. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. Here he shares his personal advice for crafting a career in journalism.
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"Your purpose is your dream that you hardly dare to admit. It is the love which lies at the centre of your authentic ambition. You will only find it by searching within yourself and that means taking the time and making the effort to look."

An extract from "Authentic Business – How To Create And Run Your Perfect Business". More