Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work For You - Softcover

Caligiuri, Paula

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137058497 ISBN 13: 9780137058495

Publisher: FT Press, 2010

Synopsis

You can design your own career, so you love what you do! You only have one life: why settle for anything less? Whether youre an entrepreneur or working within a company, Get a Life, Not a Job shows how you can make it happen for yourself. Youll learn how to move towards a fulfilling career that offers greater work-life balance, financial security, and personal control over your future -- and more sheer pleasure and inspiration from the work you do. Youll learn how to allocate more time to roles you enjoy, and shed roles you cant stand… identify career choices youll be passionate about, and build your skills and abilities to match them… improve your career without leaving your employer, and make your position more resistant to downsizing… define a mix of several stimulating and liberating wealth-building activities that keep your life engaged and balanced… keep personal relationships healthy while you pursue work youll love. This book doesnt just teach you powerful career techniques: it profiles people in all walks of life whove used these them to build truly inspiring careers. With greater workplace uncertainty than ever, you can no longer afford to let anyone else control your destiny or to maintain outdated psychological contracts with your employer. You need to take control of your own career and future. With this books help, you can do just that and make work more fulfilling than you ever dreamt possible.

You can design your own career, so you love what you do! You only have one life: why settle for anything less? Whether youre an entrepreneur or working within a company, Get a Life, Not a Job shows how you can make it happen for yourself. Youll learn how to move towards a fulfilling career that offers greater work-life balance, financial security, and personal control over your future -- and more sheer pleasure and inspiration from the work you do. Youll learn how to allocate more time to roles you enjoy, and shed roles you cant stand… identify career choices youll be passionate about, and build your skills and abilities to match them… improve your career without leaving your employer, and make your position more resistant to downsizing… define a mix of several stimulating and liberating wealth-building activities that keep your life engaged and balanced… keep personal relationships healthy while you pursue work youll love. This book doesnt just teach you powerful career techniques: it profiles people in all walks of life whove used these them to build truly inspiring careers. With greater workplace uncertainty than ever, you can no longer afford to let anyone else control your destiny or to maintain outdated psychological contracts with your employer. You need to take control of your own career and future. With this books help, you can do just that and make work more fulfilling than you ever dreamt possible.

 

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About the Author

Paula Caligiuri, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Human Resource Management Department at Rutgers University where she directed the Center for HR Strategy from 2001 through 2010. She has been recognized as one of the most prolific authors in the field of international business for her work in global careers and global leadership development. Paula has written (with Steven Poelmans) Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life (Cambridge Press, 2008) and (with Dave Lepak and Jaime Bonache) Managing the Global Workforce (Wiley, 2010). She has covered career-related topics for CNN and has hosted a pilot for a television show, CareerWATCH. Paula holds a Ph.D. from Penn State University in industrial and organizational psychology.

From the Back Cover

With a radically new approach to redesigning your career--get more passion, more fulfillment...better work-life balance...and real financial freedom!

 

You only have one life. Why not love what you do? Discover how others have made it happen--and how you can too! One step at a time, learn how to

• Start spending more time in a career you enjoy and less on work you hate...
• Identify career choices you’ll love and build your skills to match them...
• Transform and “layoff-proof” your current job...
• Define a mix of wealth-building activities that stimulate and liberate you...
• Escape outdated “psychological contracts” that let others control your destiny...
• Build the inspiring career you deserve!

Reviews

A psychologist, career coach, and Rutgers University professor of Human Resource Management, Caliguiri uses her significant practical wisdom to turn the pie-in-the-sky notion of "doing what you love" into an achievable lifestyle. Caligiuri makes a convincing case that, as employers no long show any long-term loyalty to their employees, it's up to workers to take control of their own destiny. Thus she provides a progressive plan of attack focusing on empowerment and fulfillment-chapters range from "Discover What Really Motivates You" to "Integrate Your Career with Your Life Priorities"-with helpful questionnaires, exercises, and case studies of people whose multiple career "acts" have given them happiness as well as financial freedom (such as a nurse of 30 years who turned her love of sewing into a paying side business, or Caligiuri herself, whose career has included four acts). Though "do what you love" may seem like a luxurious conceit in a time of economic recession, Caligiuri provides a cumulative, practical plan for leveraging skills, talents, and interests to add income and value to life.
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Edition details

• Publisher: FT Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137058497
• ISBN 13: 9780137058495
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 193