The Money Is the Gravy
Finding the Career That Nourishes You
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
For the audience that made Po Bronson’s What Should I Do with My Life? comes this practical and inspirational guide to finding the perfect career.
Millions of people feel trapped, bored, depressed, and unfulfilled in their current jobs. But they stay because they think “you’re not supposed to like your job” and buy into the misconception that the more money they earn, the happier they will become. This book helps readers reexamine their lives and recognize what is truly important to them. Clark’s message is that everyone has a true vocation or calling and those who follow theirs are happiest in their life and work. Fun to read, John Clark illustrates his important, life-changing messages with Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, and other amusing cartoons and terrific side-bars with quotes from Woody Allen to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. THE MONEY IS THE GRAVY is an invaluable guidebook for anyone who finds themselves in their office thinking “there’s got to be more to life than this.”
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If you're trapped in an unfulfilling career, take comfort in knowing it's not just you--according to New Zealander Clark, job depression is a global phenomenon. Clark writes about the despondency that comes with an unrewarding profession and how he dealt with it himself (he was a former commercial lawyer) in this positive but unimaginative guide. In the spirit of the 1980s classic Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow, Clark encourages readers to choose happiness over money and to"follow your bliss." He does this in an entertaining manner, enlivening the text with cartoons like Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes and quotations by everyone from St. Augustine to Lucille Ball. The book is light on concrete strategies for making a life-altering career transition, serving more as an inspirational tool. In that way, it's more spiritual than most career manuals, exhorting job seekers to leave behind their angst-ridden cubicle lives and do what truly appeals to their inner selves.
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