Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design ANNOTATION
For career consultant Laurence G. Boldt, everyone is the artist of his or her own life. In this comprehensive, useful, and potentially life-changing book, he guides readers on how to widen possible horizons--and then focus in to make the ideal real. Illustrations and worksheets throughout.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Completely revised and updated--the most innovative, unconventional, and profoundly practical career guide since What Color Is Your Parachute?
First published in 1991, Zen and the Art of Making a Living is the life-changing book that helped revolutionize the career planning field by offering a new vision of work. This new edition has been updated throughout with up-to-the-minute contact information and hundreds of new biographical resources. In addition to traditional material on assessing career skills and conducting a job search, Laurence Boldt provides innovative ideas and strategies, with more than 120 worksheets and more than five hundred inspirational quotations from sages of every stripe. A book that goes far beyond other career guides, Zen and the Art of Making a Living brings creativity, dignity, and meaning to every aspect of the work experience.
--Internet job resources added throughout
--New sections on the opportunities in today's rapidly changing workplace, participating in the field of home-based business, and developing an effective support group to find fulfilling work.
"This is simply the best book in its field that I have ever seen." -Jim Fritz, Vice-President of Program Development, Access Influential, Inc.