Book Review “What Color Is Your Parachute?”

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?”

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?”