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Escape Artist of the Month: Paul Lieberstein
Co-Executive Producer: The Office
In honor of the highly-anticipated return of The Office this week, our Escape Artist of the Month is the brilliant Paul Lieberstein. Paul is Writer/Co-Executive Producer for NBC's The Office and also plays human resources manager Toby Flenderson, who quit his job at Dunder Mifflin Scranton to escape to Costa Rica at the end of last season.
Paul himself left a career as a corporate auditor to pursue his dream of writing for television. Today he writes for and stars in an Emmy-winning sitcom about life in Corporate America. All of those hours of corporate frustration ended up serving as research for his dream job on one of the funniest shows on TV. While I suspect that Toby will return to his cubicle in Scranton next season, Paul will never have to sit through a corporate audit again.
Paul Lieberstein's Career Advice: "Our work lives are too long. We can't sit in a job we don't like for fifty years, it makes no sense. If we hate our jobs, we have to leave them, that's our responsibility to ourselves."




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