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Title: How to Find the Work You Love (Arkana S.) by Laurence G. Boldt ISBN: 0-14-019524-6 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.72 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A spiritually validating read
Comment: Unfortunately, there's really only one way to know if you're going to like something or not and that's to try it. What's one person's treasure is another person's "waste".
This isn't a book along the lines of "What Color Is Your Parachute". It's not a "step by step" guide per se, though it has some excersizes to help you explore what has meaning for you.
For me, this was a book of validation. I wish more than anything, that I could just resign myself to "any old job" and be satisfied - life would be so much easier that way... but when you spend 1/3 of your life at work and part of the other 2/3's perparing for work (commuting, preparing meals, trying to psyche yourself up to make it through another day) I think it's really important to find more meaning in what you do for a living than "payday".
If you spend a lot of time dreaming of the day you can finally retire and you feel like you're wasting your life doing work that has absolutely no meaning for you (or worse, goes against your grain) and if the money isn't enough to compensate for what you spend so much of your day doing and you feel strongly that "there's got to be more to work than this" this book will validate your feelings beautifully and give you inspiration. But if you're a "realist" ("work's not supposed to be fun - that's why they call it work") you may be disappointed.
It's ironic to me that people complained about the quotes - because I like them - but then I like quotes:
"Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessing" (Thomas Carlyle); "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist" (Emerson); "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat" (Lily Tomlin); "If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life...your reward will be that you will eat but you will not live" (George Bernard Shaw); "My employer uses twenty six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return...for my life?" (Michael Ventura).
If these quotes resonate with you, I think chances are good the book will resonate with you. If you think they're nonsense then you might not want to read this one. You might prefer something like Po Bronson's "What Should I Do With My Life?" - which I personally found depressing - but I think it might appeal to the "realists" (note: it's title is deceiving. It's not a book about how to figure out what to do with your life - rather, it's an abbreviated chronicle of other people's lives who've struggled with this question - many of whom continue the struggle).
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a great book!
Comment: I love How to Find the Work You Love! This book contains within it everything you need to know about creating meaningful work. I have given it to so many people as gifts, I stopped counting! Everyone I have given it to enjoys it as much as I do, and has benefited by its wisdom and human-hearted approach to creating the work you love. Even if you are not looking at a career change read this book. It is life changing!
Rating: 5
Summary: Surpisingly Good
Comment: To be honest, I did not expect much when I first picked up this book but was pleasantly surpised by it's content.A very good guide that gives you an integrated approach to picking a career.Well narrated and every idea rings true.
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Title: Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design (Arkana S.) by Laurence G. Boldt ISBN: 0140195998 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: How to Be, Do, or Have Anything: A Practical Guide to Creative Empowerment by Laurence Boldt ISBN: 1580083080 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Tao of Abundance (Arkana S.) by Laurence G. Boldt ISBN: 0140196064 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Way of Life: A Theology of Christian Vocation by Gary D. Badcock ISBN: 0802844901 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Zen Soup: Tasty Morsels of Wisdom from Great Minds East & West (Arkana S.) by Laurence G. Boldt ISBN: 0140195602 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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