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Summary: Career Goulash?
Review: Does anybody know what the heck the guy from Texas who reviewed this book on October 21st 1998 is talking about?
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Summary: The best career planning book ever
Review: I have recommended this book to more people than any other non-fiction book. It is useful both for immediate job searching strategies and especially useful for discovery what your long range strategy of finding your life's work. I keep reading different sections so I never lend it out, I just refer people to amazon!
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Summary: How to describe this book?
Review: I ordered this book years ago through a mail order company and have used it many times. This is just an impressive book on what Boldt has called creative career design. It inspires,it instructs, it guides and uses many sources,insights and philosaphies to do so. It is replete with inspiring quotes from philosaphers,poets, and sages and goes into the practical as well as the spiritual aspects of work. I have shared this book many times with others because it is a wealth of information on every aspect of work. But what I love most about this book is that it frees its readers to do some soul searching and discover what his/her own purpose is in life instead of trying to fit square pegs in round holes as it were. Browning pages and creases in my copy of this book are a testament to how well it has been used by me and how often I have returned to it for various reasons. I have even copied parts of it for friends and other people who I thought the information would help. As George Bernard Shaw has once said "I hope to be thuroughly used up". Well this books is very useful and sure has demonstrated what Shaw meant. There is also an updated version of this book out complete with email addresses for us computer users to look into if we so desired. You will find many uses for this book and I highly recommend either version to people who take their lives and their purpose seriously or who are in the process of searching for purpose.
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Summary: Stay with me
Review: I read the 1993 edition of this book six years ago. I agree with other reviewers that it's not a quick action oriented book for someone who wants a job now. It's an entire philosophy of living. The reason I'm giving it 5 stars is that (1) doing the exercises deeply helped me figure out where I wanted to eventually go with my work choices; (2) these insights are just as fresh with me today as they were when I was reading and working with the book -- and I find that quality in a book extremely rare.Turning the insights into action is an ongoing life project for me. It didn't immediately transform my life but it showed a path that made sense the way no other life/work guide has.
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Summary: One of my favorite books
Review: I've given this book to several friends and everyone finds something else valuable in it. I reread it myself and continually find new thought prevoking ideas. The philosophy is pulled from so many sources, both Eastern and Western.
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Summary: if the Quest for the Holy Grail had a manual, this is it.
Review: If you're lost in any way this book is a treasure chest
of help, read it all the way though. If you're not it still is because parts of it will keep those who know why they are on the planet reaffirmed.. I was very lost and took three weeks off and read it up to the point where you go out and test your decision. Best thing I ever did.
Now I'm reading how to best follow through. I plan on keeping this book around for a long, long time. It's like a manual for life, the game of life.
framed in acts like a play and sprinkled with hundreds of great quotes.
Einstien, to Cambell, to Hui Neng grace it's pages with Boldt sythesizing it all into a wonderful stream of wise advice. Life is an art, and a game, and to serve is paramount.
It's one of those books that makes you wish everyone HAD to read it, and what a nice world it would be if they did.
If Quest for the Holy Grail had a manual on how to search and find your own personal Grail, and do it in a honest and healthy way, this is it.
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Summary: if the Quest for the Holy Grail had a manual, this is it.
Review: If you're lost in any way this book is a treasure chestof help, read it all the way though. If you're not it still is because parts of it will keep those who know why they are on the planet reaffirmed.. I was very lost and took three weeks off and read it up to the point where you go out and test your decision. Best thing I ever did. Now I'm reading how to best follow through. I plan on keeping this book around for a long, long time. It's like a manual for life, the game of life. framed in acts like a play and sprinkled with hundreds of great quotes. Einstien, to Cambell, to Hui Neng grace it's pages with Boldt sythesizing it all into a wonderful stream of wise advice. Life is an art, and a game, and to serve is paramount. It's one of those books that makes you wish everyone HAD to read it, and what a nice world it would be if they did. If Quest for the Holy Grail had a manual on how to search and find your own personal Grail, and do it in a honest and healthy way, this is it.
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Summary: Like Life, you get from it what you put in
Review: If your looking for a quick fix, for a guru to take your hand and bring you to the promised land, you need to look elsewhere. If your a painter, your not going to reach your full potential using paint by number kits. If your a web designer, you will not be at the top of your craft if you rely upon point and click software to do the work and thinking for you. You have to go out and learn it and do it for yourself to truely master anything. This career guide is simply excellent. It directs you to go out and do what it takes to be what you want to be. To use it well, you will have to think and research and try. That will discourage a number of people, but those who put in real effort will be rewarded.
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Summary: life changing!
Review: Im 23 and having a mid twenties crisis and until i read this book, i didn't know why. Its a well written book that reaffirms what I always thought which was do what you love, money will follow. But when it does you won't be so concerned with money anymore. You will be too happy with your new fulfilling life. Great read!
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Summary: A Fresh Perspective on Career Building
Review: Like other career books, this one was most valuable to me in the questions it posed (much like "What Color Is Your Parachute?"), and is not something I read cover to cover. It is especially effective in assessing what you "like to do" versus "what type of job you do." You need to be disciplined to really make this book work--disciplined enough to set aside time each week to consider career options and conduct a strategic job search. Overall, an excellent job resource that I recommend to friends who are considering a career change.
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