About 5-STAR CAREER

We live in a world obsessed with ratings. We prefer to purchase 5-star products, read 5-star books, eat at 5-star restaurants, and watch 5-star movies. If you can relate to any of the following scenarios, you’re not about to give your career, as it stands today, a 5-star rating:

• You’re confused, conflicted, frustrated, or less than inspired about your career and/or where it’s heading.
• You find yourself too often relaxing on a comfy couch Netflix binging with stray popcorn kernels in the folds of your favorite sweatpants when you should be job hunting or working from home.
• You often sit, zoned out, in your corner office-variety leather chair wearing a designer outfit, knowing how blessed you are to have such a fantastic job, yet also knowing it’s not what you want to do.
• You’re generally dissatisfied with your career; it’s just not what you envisioned, it doesn’t exist at all, or you feel like a fake who’s going to get caught at any moment.
• You’re confident that you’re relatively smart and/or hardworking, but can’t seem to get ahead, and you can’t quite figure out why. Maybe you know why (or think you do) but don’t have a clue how to make changes, or lack the confidence required.
• The people you work with are all actual jerks and/or you seem to morph into a jerk, for some odd reason, every time you walk into the office or open your laptop.
• At this point, you suspect that you should settle for a decent salary and benefits but sense that there should be more to gain from all the crap you have to do every single day.
• No matter how hard you work, those who can impact your career don’t seem to appreciate it, or even fully understand what it is you’re doing. Worse, maybe you understand the lack of appreciation because you yourself feel that what you’re doing is ridiculous, boring, or like glorified busy work.
• Weird career-related stuff you can’t easily explain keeps happening. Whatever it is always ends up derailing your plan or otherwise holding you back. You feel like a magnet for bad luck.
• On top of it all, you’re not sure what a 5-Star career is for you; you’re feeling listless and uninspired, yet you want that career. Perhaps once you have it, you’ll know?
• You’re feeling a little, or a lot, ticked off that everyone around you appears to be either thriving in a unique career that seemed to develop naturally over time, or they have the sort of job that has a clear progression based on years of experience. They all seem to have 4 or 5-star careers but not you.

Industries across the globe manufacture products and provide services that you deem 5-star worthy; their goal is to satisfy your needs and desires. They follow the proven science of quality management to make that happen because it makes common sense, and its effectiveness is irrefutable. 5-Star Career: Define and Build Yours Using the Science of Quality Management provides common sense, strategic context for personally implementing quality concepts that reflect your goals as well as your own definition of a 5-star life and career.

Penelope Przekop built a 30-year career around the science of quality management while struggling to overcome the uniquely disturbing childhood she shared with her brother. Along the way, she internalized the science used to build quality into products and services and discovered how it can be personally applied to build and manage not only the quality of a career but also the quality of a life.