X Change: How to torch your work treadmill, retire your boss, dump the ingrates, torment the passive-aggressives, escape the toxic office, get your ... that lets you live, love and laugh after 40 Paperback – June 6, 2019

If you’re languishing rather than thriving in your day to day work, grab your earbuds and listen to Lucia Knight inspire you not just with stories of change-but the keys to rewriting your own story (section 3). Knight is the real deal-inquisitive and insightful about career change. She’ll never say it’s easy-as these stories demonstrate-but it might just be necessary. The stories offer glimpses of hope. Stay for the 9 themes that connect the stories and form the basis for your own way forward. Get unstuck.

Reinvigorating your career in your 40s, 50s and even 60s is scary but this little book packs a lot of help into its 121 pages. From inspirational examples of real people making real change to their lives, to practical guidance on re-writing your future story, Lucia Knight gives confidence that it is possible to like, even love, the work you do and to do it in an way that brings all parts of your life into balance.With a solid grounding in the science behind change, Lucia's advice is practical, honest and straight forward. There's no sugar coating of the work that's needed to understand what a happier work future looks like for you, just a framework of simple steps and experiments and heaps of encouragement that we can all have happier working futures.

I found myself burned out and stuck not knowing what to do. I had ordered so many self help books about changing career and my life but what I really needed was this book. Many £££’s later, I found this story book. I love hearing about other people’s stories, and even though I was not in the same profession as the individual characters in this book, I saw pieces of myself in each character. I cried, I empathised, I nodded in agreement and rejoiced when I came to the end of each persons story. I was no longer alone thinking I was a failure in my career and life. I was “normal” and knew that my “superpowers” had made me successful in the past but were not being used anymore due to extreme stress in my current role. I’m on the road to recovery and lucky to have had the help of Lucia along the way. Keep doing you’re great work Lucia!

Disappointing. The ‘stories’ seem to be just that, there are no references to real people or the businesses that they set up, which would make the whole book seem a lot more believable and interesting. I was looking forward to reading this but it really does seem like a lot of simplistic, very short stories of apparently real people.

This is a wonderful book for anyone who is looking to make a career change but isn’t quite ready to take that first step.Full of inspiring stories from ordinary people from all walks of life, the book uncovers how each of them carved out a path that enabled them to do work they loved.Their journeys are all different and that in itself is refreshing, because you are not being ‘sold’ a promise that by following a defined process you will achieve the results you desire. Instead you are able to take the learning that resonates for you and apply it to your own life.The booking is beautifully written and will compel you to take action!

Although concise, this little gem of a book is essential reading for anyone of who has found their long term career is no longer 'right' for them. Based on interviews with people who could no longer carry on in their careers and had made that leap into something new, it really resonated with me. I could empathise with their reasons and see the effects that their situations were having on them in myself.It validated the steps I'd already made towards changing my working life and helped me to understand what I still need to do to get there. Highly recommended.