The Passionate Professional

Book excerpt: Has it become difficult to find purpose in your work? Do you seek new ways to find fulfillment from your endeavors? The Passionate Professional: Finding Fulfillment through Work-Life Balance provides the answers by exploring balance and all its nuances and illustrates how combining recreation with success can lead to more profound fulfillment. Through interviews, research, and personal narratives, Brian Ely shows how hobbies can complement and overlap with a fast-track career. Readers will discover how to balance one's passions and career while gaining greater satisfaction from both the creative and material sides of life, through stories such as... How a Georgetown English major landed a career on Wall Street through storytelling. How David Solomon, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, produces his own electronic music outside of the banking world. And more... The Passionate Professional illustrates work-life balance in a way that makes it meaningful and applicable to landed professionals and college students who want to look at personal fulfillment and success in a new way.