If you think all the way back to this book's introduction, you'll recall that it's been described as "a book of hope, masquerading as a job-hunting manual." Given how much time we spend at work, and how demoralizing the wrong job can be, that hope is less of a masquerade and more of a shift… Continue reading Book Review “What Color Is Your Parachute?”
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Introducing “What Color Is Your Parachute?”
The title of this book emerged out of a joke. In the late 1960s, Richard (Dick) N. Bolles, the author, was a pastor in San Francisco. A parishioner brought up their desire to "bail out from a job". As an ex-Navy, Bolles thought of airplanes when hearing that phrase. So, he responded jokingly, "What color… Continue reading Introducing “What Color Is Your Parachute?”

