How to be happy at work : a practical guide to career satisfaction / Arlene S. Hirsch.
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TextPublication details: Indianapolis, IN : JIST Works, c2004.Edition: 2nd edDescription: x, 294 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 1563709805
- 9781563709807
- 650.1 22
- HF5381 .H516 2004
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Rev. ed. of: Love your work and success will follow. c1996.
Includes index.
Career choice: what do you want to be--now that you're grown up -- Do you know the secrets of career success? -- Fail(ure) is not a four-letter word -- Oh no, 20!: midlife career transitions -- Achieving career security in turbulent times -- How to love the job you hate -- Layoff survivors' dilemma: put up or shut up -- Quitting your job -- Business ethics: what's your bottom line? -- Work/life balance: making a life while making a living -- Having fun at work -- We, inc.: working with others or starting your own business.
"Whether you're choosing your career for the first time, rethinking the choices you made years before, or deciding how to spend your pre- and post-retirement years productively, the right career can make all the difference in whether your work life is happy. Using the worksheets and real-life stories in this book, you will gain the insight to make the right choices, succeed in your career, and overcome your past career mistakes. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Patron comment on 2013-11-03
What makes a person happy once they have gone through the stressful period of job hunting and have gained a job? What can an individual actually do to increase their happiness at work? Can a person even control that emotion? These questions are addressed within this book in a manner that is readable, interesting, and easy to understand. In discussing emotions, how to channel them, risk and its reward, and finding a motivation, Hirsch is successful at showing an individual the proper path to increasing satisfaction as well as happiness in any given job. But she does not end here. Instead, Hirsch continues on with chapters on what causes career “failures”, how to love a job you hate, and how to deal with being laid off or quitting. All these chapters walk through “rules” that if one lives by, is more likely to have a better time at work. Going further, Hirsch delves into ethics, discussing how ethics and satisfaction in a career are related, something that is oftentimes integral to happiness in a job. This book is a thorough examination of what it means to really be happy in a job, how to take control and start on the path to happiness, as well as how to react to negative situations in the workplace. Through easy to read text, metaphors, worksheets, and easy to understand “rules”, this book does lay out exactly what its title claims and as such, is a very good resource for those who are employed and wish to improve their outlook on a career.