Love Your Job E-Book

Kerry E. Hannon

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

AWARDS: Independent Publisher Book Award 2015 (Silver) and National Mature Media Award 2015 (Bronze)

Step-by-step tips for revitalizing your career

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. Using these simple techniques, you can adopt the attitude that will keep you happy and that might just lead to bigger and better things, no matter what stage of your career you are in. In this book, you will learn to:

• Develop new habits that bring more purpose into every single workday
• Rekindle your hope and motivation by celebrating small successes
• Recognize negative patterns that keep you from enjoying your job
• Craft an entrepreneurial attitude that will get you noticed and enrich your work life

We all deserve to experience happiness and satisfaction every day, at every stage of our careers. Kerry Hannon explains that you don't have to make a huge career transition to love work again. But if you reinvent the way you see work, who knows where your new outlook will lead? Wake up to the countless possibilities that await you with Love Your Job.

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Additional Praise for Love your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness

“Millions of older Americans will have to work longer to achieve a secure retirement, but burnout can be a big obstacle. Now we’ve got a thoughtful, fun-to-read action plan for staying engaged and passionate about work from one of the best experts on careers after age 50—Kerry Hannon.”

—Mark Miller, retirement columnist for Reuters, Morningstar, and WealthManagement.com

“Work should offer more than a paycheck. Work is also a big part of the daily search for meaning, the desire for a sense of fulfillment, the pursuit of community and connections. Kerry Hannon has written an indispensable guide for people looking to find or reignite purpose and joy in their job. Love Your Job reflects the wisdom she’s gathered over the years interviewing, thinking, and writing about jobs and careers—insights she brilliantly translates into practical strategies for us to consider.”

—Chris Farrell, author of Unretirement: How Baby Boomers Are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life

“Kerry Hannon demonstrates that loving your job is not a mysterious process, and it does not depend on the power or whims of others. She succinctly explains the specific set of behaviors, actions, thoughts, and beliefs that lead to meaningful job satisfaction now and in the future.”

—Bruce Rosenstein, Managing Editor, Leader to Leader, and author of Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way

“There’s a lot to love about Kerry Hannon’s Love Your Job: The New Rules of Career Happiness. It’s a fresh and inspiring guide to recasting work into something that’s meaningful and motivating. The result is a thoroughly researched and beautifully written book, putting solutions squarely in the hands of the reader with many practical ideas on making virtually any kind of work more engaging.”

—George H. Schofield, PhD, author of After 50 It’s Up to Us

Love Your Job

THE NEW RULES FOR CAREER HAPPINESS

Kerry Hannon

Creative Director: Scott A. Davis Cover Design: Lesley Q. Palmer Photograph: © Elizabeth Dranitzke, Photopia

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:Hannon, Kerry.    Love your job : the new rules of career happiness/Kerry Hannon.    pages cm       Includes index.    ISBN 978-1-118-89806-2 (paper); ISBN 978-1-118-89804-8 (ePDF); ISBN 978-1-118-89805-5 (ePUB)    1. Job satisfaction. 2. Career development. 3. Employee motivation. I. Title.    HF5549.5.J63H276 2015    650.1–dc23

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For my mom, Marguerite Sullivan Hannon

Contents

Introduction

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

What Does Your Work Really Mean To You?

Write in Your Journal Every Day for a Week

Is Your Pay What’s Really Bothering You?

A Can-Do Philosophy

Consider Taking a Self-Assessment Test

Get Ready to Love Your Job

Chapter Recap

Chapter 4 Refresh Your Attitude: The Keystone to Your Love Your Job Action Plan

Attitude Adjustment

Create Your Own Purpose

Write It Down

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

Build a Bear

Practice HOVERing

Mental Games

Adjusting Your Attitude

What to Do If You’re Bullied at Work

Step Right Up and Enroll in My Three-Step Fitness Program

Chapter Recap

Chapter 5 Beyond the Job Description

Take Time for Renewal

Volunteering and Mentoring

Adding Value to Your Job

Take Control of Your Time

Get Involved in “Extracurricular” Activities

Chapter Recap

Chapter 6 How to Build Flexibility into Your Job

Work Flexibility and Happiness

A Myriad of Flextime Options

How Is Flextime Working?

Is Telework for You?

The Risks of Working at Home

Chapter Recap

Chapter 7 How to Upgrade Your Game

The Benefits of Learning New Tricks

Learning and Healthy Aging

Getting Over the Hurdles

Chapter Recap

Chapter 8 How to Have the “What’s Next?” Talk with Your Boss

The Time Is Now

Questions to Ask Yourself before the Big Meeting

Your Plan-and-Prepare Strategy

Carrying Out the “Ask”

Chapter Recap

Afterword

Resources

Ideas for Further Reading

Helpful Career Happiness Web Sites

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

End User License Agreement

Guide

Cover

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Introduction What My Dog Taught Me about Loving My Job

All I really need to know about loving work I learned from Zena, my Labrador retriever. My resolution has always been to try as hard as I can to follow her example.

Start the day with gusto. Zena wakes with a mission. She’s motivated. And she’s determined to motivate me. She stands beside my bed, rests her head on the mattress, her eyes level with mine, and stares piercingly, willing me to get up.

She’s always eager to face the outside world. In fact, she charges into it, and returns to dive into her breakfast with delight. Then she’s ready for a vigorous workout to stay physically fit. That’s a 40”minute”plus walk either around the sidewalks of the city or through the woods and fields, depending on where we are that day.