Batoul I. Ajlouni’s Ditching Success? A Career Ventured; A Life Regained is Ajlouni’s timely memoir which showcases her hard-earned success and her personal experiences during her journey to self-discovery and transformation. One day, despite having reached a successful point in her work life through passion and determination, she suddenly feels like this is not what she wants in life anymore. It took time before she stopped her workaholic self from being pulled back to work again. However, the real challenge was just about to begin. She finally decides to walk away from the busy life she once had. What is she going to do now? What is she meant to do out there? What does she really want to be? Read this inspiring and beautiful memoir and learn a thing or two about the fulfillment you will find after overcoming the dilemmas that life throws at you.

Ditching Success? by Batoul I. Ajlouni is a moving memoir filled with relatable situations. As I read through various situations and problems that Ajlouni encountered, I realized how remarkable the story is. This book showed me the fantastic experience of realizing new dreams, and she taught me that sometimes living life according to what you feel is best for you. I admire Ajlouni because of the passion and hard work she showed throughout her career and personal life. Her insistence on trying something new and her courage to stick to her life-changing choices is something I aspire to have someday. The line that stuck with me the most in this memoir was, “The process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don’t want to be.” Overall, this book is well-written, and it helped me understand myself more. I feel as though I could realize new dreams by doing what is best for me! Well done!

There are different reasons why people quit their careers, so it’s not a question of whether or not you’ll be happy when you quit your job. In the case of author Batoul I. Ajlouni, it’s rather more about the questions of what she is leaving and what she wants. These are questions that she answers in her concise memoir, Ditching Success: A Career Ventured; A Life Regained. She takes you on a journey of self-discovery, opening her story with questions about choices. She is an entrepreneur, an architect, a graphic designer, a film director, a business executive, but who is she really? Where does she start? Her barrage of questions about meaning and identity takes her to a transformative decision - one that will lead to personal empowerment and discovering what matters most.

Ditching Success? is focused on a personal and philosophical quest, and reading it becomes a study in individual choices. Batoul I. Ajlouni’s voice and presence can be felt on every page, and what we read is a poignant depiction of popular sentiments about career and soul-searching. It’s a real-life situation of what we understand to be inherent in our nature as human beings, that sort of need to find ourselves when we become overwhelmed or buried beneath the pile of success, and yet we still feel empty. In a time where many of us are quitting our office jobs and rethinking priorities brought about by the pandemic, this book is one that you must consider as a model for self-actualization. It will help you consider whether quitting your job is your best option.