Ebook: Love Your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness

Love Your Job; Contents; Introduction: What My Dog Taught Me about Loving My Job; Chapter 1 Curing the Workplace Blues; Should You Switch Careers?; Chin Up!; Take It Up a Notch; Loving Your Job; The "HOVER" Approach; Get a Grip; How to Use This Book; Chapter 2 Creating the Blueprint for Your Dream Job; Map Your Future; Your Past Isn't Prologue; Nothing Is Forever; Look at the Big Picture; What Would Make You Love Your Job?; What Are Your Work Goals?; Adopt New Ways to Envision Your Career; Chapter Recap; Chapter 3 Do an MRI on Your Work and Your Life; Create Your Job "Budget" Sheet;"Yes, it is possible to have a job you love, and it doesn't require starting from scratch. Love Your Job is a guide to making work fulfilling and fun again, or even for the first time. Why count down the hours of the day or the days to retirement when you could reinvigorate your workday, transforming the daily doldrums into a daily dose of enjoyable activity? Kerry Hannon, The New York Times columnist and AARP's Jobs Expert, focuses on the little things that can make a big difference in how we feel about work. Love Your Job is all about the routines, habits, and thought patterns that, over the years, may have turned a dream job into a drudge or, worse, a nightmare. Changing these habits and attitudes is simple, and this book shows you how to identify the little things that make work enjoyable and engaging."--