The Career Fix-It Book: How to Make Your Job Work Better for You

Rating:
Summary: Not Your Typical Career Book
Review: The Career Fix-it Book is not about choosing a new career, but about improving the job you already have and improving your attitude toward it. It's for the many people who are unhappy in their jobs.

The tone is friendly and unpretentious, not pretentious or academic. The exercises are useful, they make sense, and you can do them quickly, take your time, or skip over them entirely.

Chapter headings convey some of the humorous informal feel of this book: Stuck Doesn't Have to Be All Bad. Or: If You Are Not Having Fun, Lower Your Standards. And my favorite: It IS Just a Job. The stories that accompany each chapter sound like they're about real people, not made-up characters who illustrate a point.

You can find some good problem solving suggestions, too. I've used the "Work Worry Time" idea, where you set aside a limited time of say 15 minutes a day at home to do nothing but worry about work. Then you don't have to do it all night!

Another thing I like is how the author, who is a psychologist, tells it like it is. She's direct but kind, and has a skillful way of cutting through our defenses and illusions. The book is only 152 pages long, easy to read, and funny. I liked it.

Rating:
Summary: Not Your Typical Career Book
Review: The Career Fix-it Book is not about choosing a new career, but about improving the job you already have and improving your attitude toward it. It's for the many people who are unhappy in their jobs.

The tone is friendly and unpretentious, not pretentious or academic. The exercises are useful, they make sense, and you can do them quickly, take your time, or skip over them entirely.

Chapter headings convey some of the humorous informal feel of this book: Stuck Doesn't Have to Be All Bad. Or: If You Are Not Having Fun, Lower Your Standards. And my favorite: It IS Just a Job. The stories that accompany each chapter sound like they're about real people, not made-up characters who illustrate a point.

You can find some good problem solving suggestions, too. I've used the "Work Worry Time" idea, where you set aside a limited time of say 15 minutes a day at home to do nothing but worry about work. Then you don't have to do it all night!

Another thing I like is how the author, who is a psychologist, tells it like it is. She's direct but kind, and has a skillful way of cutting through our defenses and illusions. The book is only 152 pages long, easy to read, and funny. I liked it.