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| Writer | Richard Nelson Bolles |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ten Speed Press |
| Publish Date | 2018 |
| Pages | 461 |
| File Size | 6 MB |
| File Type |
I am the sole researcher, writer, and layout artist of this book—with some help, at the end, from my friends over at Ten Speed Press. And I’ve been doing this for 47 years in a row, which I’m told is some kind of publishing record. I’m often asked, Do you ever get tired of all this? Well, it would have been nice to retire 25 years ago, but that is just not my nature.
What Color Is Your Parachute PDF – Richard Nelson Bolles
I love helping people, and every year I learn new things that I think will help people. So, I have to keep writing. This year, I’m all up on the unemployment marketplace, robotics, IoT (the Internet of Things), the Economy, and a dozen other subjects. I write for LinkedIn (I’m one of their “Influencers”), and I write for AARP’s Life Reimagined Project, and for Australia’s kikki.k project. What Color Is Your Parachute PDF
And I love it. But the focus of this book is not on me. It’s on You. You are the heroes and heroines of this book. You are the ones who struggle to make life work, who tell me of your victories (and defeats). And you are the inventive ones. You are the ones who tell me solutions to job-hunting or career-changing problems that puzzle me.
I know that this book demands a lot of every reader, just as life demands a lot of all of us, and I am amazed at how many of the over ten million people who have bought this book (in one of its annual editions) are willing to sit down and do the hard work of the Self-Inventory in chapters 7 and 8. It takes more than one person to create a book.
What Color Is Your Parachute PDF – Richard Nelson Bolles
My particular thanks this year go to Lisa Westmoreland and Marci M. Bolles. Lisa is the executive editor at Ten Speed Press and has helped greatly with the form and updating of this 2018 edition. And Marci has helped greatly with the typing of this manuscript. My gratitude also to George Young for his help with updating my veterans’ handout.
This is a book about jobs, but more importantly, it is a book about life and hope. I have learned, over my 90 years on Earth, that the secret of living is not to set as our goal a happy life, nor even a successful life (as the world measures “success”), but a victorious life, meeting the obstacles and challenges that life naturally throws into our path, and by grit, determination, and Grace, overcoming them all. What Color Is Your Parachute PDF
And lucky those who find love on their journey. I quote from what a woman dying of ALS once said: “Throughout all this, I have learned that the only thing that matters is love. When you live in love, everything else just falls into place.” May you find such love in your life. I have, with my wonderful wife, Marci. But there are others, too.
What Color Is Your Parachute PDF – Richard Nelson Bolles
Were it not for this book and social media sites such as Facebook, I would never have met you, never have known so many valiant and courageous souls, as you have faced and faced down so many difficulties that might have defeated me. I don’t just appreciate my readers; I admire my readers. You are such an inspiration to me. What Color Is Your Parachute PDF
Particularly in overcoming the health challenges I have faced this past year. I am a grateful man, and this is the place, each year, where I recite my litany of love and gratitude for all the people in my life, past and present. First of all, I am enchanted by every moment of my life that I get to spend with such a wondrous woman as my wife, Marci.
I treasure her love, brains, wit, and caring. For example, back in 2014, I badly injured my back while vacationing (and tossing heavy luggage around) over in Paris and the U.K. Always in excellent health (until then), my recovery has been slow but steady. Marci (coincidentally, a licensed nurse) has created the most loving, beautiful healing environment all around me, for which I shall ever be grateful.
What Color Is Your Parachute PDF – Richard Nelson Bolles
I’m grateful, too, for Marci’s grown children from a previous marriage, Janice (Marcel) and Adlai (Aimee), and their kids, Logan and Aiden. They are wonderful to me. I am grateful beyond measure for the family that brought me into this world. What Color Is Your Parachute PDF
I had a really wonderful Mom and Dad, and I loved the brother I grew up with (the famous reporter/martyr Don Bolles), and my one sister (Ann). They’re all gone now; I’m the only survivor from those generations. In fact, I am the patriarch of the whole Bolles clan now. I am so grateful for my children—Stephen, Mark, Gary, and Sharon— and my grandchildren—all ten of them.
We lost Mark in 2012 to a massive cerebral hemorrhage at age fifty-eight. I wept over that a lot and still miss him greatly. He lived with me for six out of the last twelve years of his life, and was the author of our book Job-Hunting Online. He was a treasure.
What Color Is Your Parachute PDF
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