What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

by Richard Nelson Bolles

People from other cultures will tell you about “the tall poppy” theory of life, with its implication that you shouldn’t stand taller than others in your field. That has a lot of truth to it. But you make yourself equal to others not by lowering yourself, but by raising them.

For a successful job hunt, you should choose places based on your interest in them and not wait for them to open up a vacancy.

We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet are ready to drink death like wine.