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What to Do with The Rest of Your Life: America's Top Career Coach Shows You How to Find or Create the Job You'll LOVE
Stuck in a job that's going nowhere? Hate going to work? Pounding the pavement looking for an opportunity? Bored? Whether you are caught in a career crisis, a victim of corporate downsizing, or suffering from old-fashioned burnout, you need America's #1 career coach, Robin Ryan.
Robin has the answers. She will show you that your perfect career is waiting for you no matter what your age or income. Most important, Robin Ryan provides great advice for the millions who feel trapped in their jobs and need a change but also need to maintain their income.
Robin has the answers. She will show you that your perfect career is waiting for you no matter what your age or income. Most important, Robin Ryan provides great advice for the millions who feel trapped in their jobs and need a change but also need to maintain their income.
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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March 22, 2016
"What to do with the rest of your life" was probability the most engaging book title ive ever seen and will see. Robin Ryan an american career coach takes to literature to help people on a large scale pursue there dreams and make money doing it. This non-Fiction
Robin Ryan believes that every person can be happy in a job can have a meaningful job and never needs to settle.
Robin tackles this belief by breaking her book into well thought out steps. First defining your passion. This is the first thing you need to think of before starting a job, even before thinking about money. What do you like? What do you not like? What do you love?
Then she talks about what your best at. Does this fit your passion? can it and are there aspects that can? You need to see what skills you are already good at and what jobs involve these skills. You also need to look at your values meaning what do you value in a work place? (leisure time,public contact,salary,flexible work schedule.) these are just a few things you may want in a job. Also how will this job affect you family? Will there be less time for them? Less money? these all go along with the category of what your best at.
She then thinks you need to determine your ideal job. If you could have everything you would want in a job what would that job look like? How does it effect your future? And will you run your own business?
Then she talks about how to really get a job. Where to look, What to wear, What to say and the generals of finding a job in todays world.
She also goes into depth on how to start your own business if thats what you think is right for you, which really helped me because it has a lot to do with my current job. She talks about what start ups are and how to make one, how to start a business when your still working another job, how you can make your hobby your business, and where to get the money to do it.
She then goes on to talk about what most peoples minds are on which is money, how to talk to your boss about your salary and determine what it will be. Robin also includes the social issue that men are still payed more then women and how it effects jobs.
Next robin talks about how to get promotions and how to get raises. And goes back to creating your own business with how to get you name out to the world, marketing stratages, business skills and how to make more money.
She concludes by simply saying go out there and do it, follow these steps and get the job. The job you can be happy in and the job that is right for you.
The great thing about this book is that almost everyone could read it. Robin speaks in an engaging and uplifting tone that keeps the reading going without getting board. This book was really a awesome and eye opening experience. I was very interested in the starting of your own business sections and it taught me a lot I didn't know about it, which helped me think about how it fits into my job now and how it could help me in the future if I wanted to start my own business. There weren't many parts of the book I didnt like although I was less interested in the promotions sections because I don't think Id ever want to be a boss and that I find it easier to listen then to tell. As I said before I really think this book could be for anyone, it doesn't focus on certain jobs but rather the person themselves. She does this by making you think about what you want out of a job and what you like in a job. Its great because you find yourself stopping at points in the book and really thinking about the ideas you just read about, which I am not used to but enjoyed.
Robin Ryan believes that every person can be happy in a job can have a meaningful job and never needs to settle.
Robin tackles this belief by breaking her book into well thought out steps. First defining your passion. This is the first thing you need to think of before starting a job, even before thinking about money. What do you like? What do you not like? What do you love?
Then she talks about what your best at. Does this fit your passion? can it and are there aspects that can? You need to see what skills you are already good at and what jobs involve these skills. You also need to look at your values meaning what do you value in a work place? (leisure time,public contact,salary,flexible work schedule.) these are just a few things you may want in a job. Also how will this job affect you family? Will there be less time for them? Less money? these all go along with the category of what your best at.
She then thinks you need to determine your ideal job. If you could have everything you would want in a job what would that job look like? How does it effect your future? And will you run your own business?
Then she talks about how to really get a job. Where to look, What to wear, What to say and the generals of finding a job in todays world.
She also goes into depth on how to start your own business if thats what you think is right for you, which really helped me because it has a lot to do with my current job. She talks about what start ups are and how to make one, how to start a business when your still working another job, how you can make your hobby your business, and where to get the money to do it.
She then goes on to talk about what most peoples minds are on which is money, how to talk to your boss about your salary and determine what it will be. Robin also includes the social issue that men are still payed more then women and how it effects jobs.
Next robin talks about how to get promotions and how to get raises. And goes back to creating your own business with how to get you name out to the world, marketing stratages, business skills and how to make more money.
She concludes by simply saying go out there and do it, follow these steps and get the job. The job you can be happy in and the job that is right for you.
The great thing about this book is that almost everyone could read it. Robin speaks in an engaging and uplifting tone that keeps the reading going without getting board. This book was really a awesome and eye opening experience. I was very interested in the starting of your own business sections and it taught me a lot I didn't know about it, which helped me think about how it fits into my job now and how it could help me in the future if I wanted to start my own business. There weren't many parts of the book I didnt like although I was less interested in the promotions sections because I don't think Id ever want to be a boss and that I find it easier to listen then to tell. As I said before I really think this book could be for anyone, it doesn't focus on certain jobs but rather the person themselves. She does this by making you think about what you want out of a job and what you like in a job. Its great because you find yourself stopping at points in the book and really thinking about the ideas you just read about, which I am not used to but enjoyed.
January 25, 2009
I didn't learn anything from this book and found her tone a little insulting at times.
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