See the latest press coverage about Pamela Skillings and Escape from Corporate America:
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NEW YORK TIMES – Preoccupations
Do You Love the Job, Or Just the Paycheck?
REVIEW – Newsweek

REUTERS – Small Business News
A Freelance Lifestyle in a Corporate Workplace
RADIO – The J.O.B. Working Radio – Interview
Q & A with Pamela about finding your dream job
REVIEW – Stephen Smith – Productivity In Context
REVIEW – David Maister – Professional Business, Professional Life (Author & Management Consultant. Named one of the Top 40 Business Thinkers in the World – Business Minds, Financial Times/Prentice Hall)
Passion, People and Principles
REVIEW – Jonathan Fields – Awake At The Wheel
Entrepreneur Mom – Aliza Sherman Risdahl
A Business Plan Is Your Friend
Q & A with uber-blogger Robert Scoble (Scobleizer) for FastCompany TV
LifeHack.org
REVIEW – Steve Spalding – How To Split an Atom
REVIEW – Gautam Ghosh – Management Consultant
Q & A – ABC NEWS "Money Matters"
Escape from Corporate America – Step Away from the Desk
REVIEW – Work Matters (Bob Sutton, Stanford Professor & NY Times bestselling author of The No Asshole Rule)
Escape from Corporate America: The Book and The Quiz
REVIEW – All Thing Workplace (Steve Roesler)
You Can Be A Successful Corporate Escape Artist If…
FORBES (Book Excerpts)
RADIO – Your Financial Editor with Chris Murray (WFMD-AM 930) Maryland
Q & A – Personal Branding Blog (Dan Schawbel)
Are YOU Ready to Escape From Corporate America?
San Antonio Express – Clocking In (Sean M. Wood)
GO Magazine – BizBits (The Magazine of AirTran Airlines)


REVIEW – JobDig (What Would Dad Say?)
Three Books, Three Days and Nights To Change Your Life
"…should be required reading for everyone who is thinking about starting their own company. I should buy copies and hand one to everyone who tells me their dream is to be in their own business…"
REVIEW – KnowHR (Frank Roche)
"…I highly recommend this book. It’s my favorite so far this year and one that HR people should read…then put on their bookshelf."
REVIEW – Publishers Weekly on Escape from Corporate America:
Journalist Skillings aims to rescue Americans from corporate tedium in this entertaining and informative guide to walking away from an established–albeit stultifying–job and forging a more rewarding career.
With insight and humor, Skillings enumerates the stages of "Corporate Disillusionment" and the features of the "toxic workplace"–the bullying bosses, moronic co-workers, "terminal boredom" and rampant racism and sexism. A multitude of questionnaires, exercises and worksheets helps readers determine their dream job, assess expenses and assets, and plot an escape plan to break free of corporate life without going bankrupt. Skillings also provides pointers to those readers who simply want to be happier in their current jobs–including negotiating for more flexible hours, telecommuting and taking sabbaticals.
Vignettes of successful fugitives from the corporate world populate the book and an extremely useful "Escape Tool Kit" supplies information on where and how to find career coaches, health insurance, job listings and a wealth of other much needed resources when embarking on career change.
Comprehensive, informative and witty, this book will be indispensable to those looking to start new careers with concrete plans and well-defined goals.
Investors Business Daily / Yahoo Finance (Adelia Cellini Linecker)
Christian Science Monitor (Marilyn Gardner)
Seven Things Employees Want Most To Be Happy At Work



My name is Pamela Skillings and I'm an author and career coach.