Ernie J.
Zelinski is an unconventional career expert
and one of the world's top corporate escape
artists. He is also an innovator and
a creativity consultant.
Ernie is presently working on his
inspirational novel called
Look Ma; Life's
Easy and a blockbuster
retirement gift book called
The
Joy of Being Retired which he plans to
have published by Workman
Publishing.
Ernie Zelinski has spent over the last 20
years hanging around coffee bars such as the
Sugarbowl and the Second Cup in
Edmonton and the Bread Garden and
Kalhoun's in Vancouver. These coffee
bars are where he does most of his work
and experiences the joy
of not working.
Ernie is the author of the international
bestseller
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free:
Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your
Financial Advisor, which has sold over
110,000 copies sold and has been published in 9
languages.
Ernie
Zelinski is best known as the author of
The Joy of Not
Working: A Book for the
Retired, Unemployed, and Overworked,
published by Ten Speed Press in Berkeley,
California, and which has sold over 225,000 copies and has
been published in 17 languages.
Ernie's latest work before Career Success Without a Real
Job was
101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But
Keep Forgetting.
Other works that Ernie is creating
include the 21st Century Edition of
The Joy of Not Being
Married and
Life' Secret Handbook for Having Great
Friends.
Feature articles about Ernie and his
best-selling books have appeared in major newspapers
including
USA TODAY , Oakland Tribune, Boston
Herald, The
Washington Post,
National Post, Globe and
Mail, Vancouver Sun, and Toronto
Star.
He has been interviewed by over 100
radio stations and has appeared on CNN TV’s Financial News,
CBC TV’s Venture, and CTV’s Canada AM.
Ernie has a B.Sc. in Engineering and a
Masters in Business Administration from the University of Alberta. He
occasionally speaks professionally on the subjects of book
marketing, solo-entrepreneurship, early retirement, and
applying creativity to business and leisure.
Ernie
Zelinski is uniquely qualified to write
best-selling
books such and Career Success Without a Real
Job and How to Retire Happy,
Wild, and Free given that he opted for
semi-retirement when he was only thirty years old and
close to financial bankruptcy (with a net worth of minus
$30,000).
Yet today Ernie
is a prosperous writer, entrepreneur, and innovator
of
premium gift books who maintains a
three- to four-hour workday and doesn’t like to work at all
in any month that doesn’t have an “r” in it.
Ernie lives in Edmonton, where, besides
hanging around his favorite coffee shops with his laptop,
he enjoys running, cycling, tennis, reading, and
traveling.
Coming Soon: An excerpt from
Career Success Without a Real
Job about Ernie
Zelinski's experience of living the life
of a starving artist in Vancouver.
