Love Your Job - The New Rules of Career Happiness

A New York Times columnist and AARP's Jobs Expert describes how to turn your daily grind back into your dream job through developing new habits that give purpose to your workday, recognizing and changing negative patterns and celebrating small successes. Original.

List of contents

Introduction xi
 
What My Dog Taught Me about Loving My Job xi
 
Chapter 1 Curing the Workplace Blues 1
 
Should You Switch Careers? 3
 
Chin Up! 6
 
Take It Up a Notch 7
 
Loving Your Job 8
 
The "HOVER" Approach 9
 
Get a Grip 10
 
How to Use This Book 12
 
Chapter 2 Creating the Blueprint for Your Dream Job 15
 
Map Your Future 16
 
Your Past Isn't Prologue 16
 
Nothing Is Forever 18
 
Look at the Big Picture 19
 
What Would Make You Love Your Job? 21
 
What Are Your Work Goals? 23
 
Adopt New Ways to Envision Your Career 24
 
Chapter Recap 27
 
Chapter 3 Do an MRI on Your Work and Your Life 29
 
Create Your Job "Budget" Sheet 30
 
What Does Your Work Really Mean To You? 32
 
Write in Your Journal Every Day for a Week 35
 
Is Your Pay What's Really Bothering You? 38
 
A Can?]Do Philosophy 38
 
Consider Taking a Self?]Assessment Test 41
 
Get Ready to Love Your Job 44
 
Chapter Recap 44
 
Chapter 4 Refresh Your Attitude: The Keystone to Your Love Your Job Action Plan 47
 
Attitude Adjustment 48
 
Create Your Own Purpose 49
 
Write It Down 50
 
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words 51
 
Build a Bear 51
 
Practice HOVERing 52
 
Mental Games 57
 
Adjusting Your Attitude 59
 
What to Do If You're Bullied at Work 60
 
Step Right Up and Enroll in My Three?]Step Fitness Program 64
 
Chapter Recap 71
 
Chapter 5 Beyond the Job Description 73
 
Take Time for Renewal 74
 
Volunteering and Mentoring 77
 
Adding Value to Your Job 85
 
Take Control of Your Time 94
 
Get Involved in "Extracurricular" Activities 96
 
Chapter Recap 98
 
Chapter 6 How to Build Flexibility into Your Job 99
 
Work Flexibility and Happiness 100
 
A Myriad of Flextime Options 102
 
How Is Flextime Working? 104
 
Is Telework for You? 109
 
The Risks of Working at Home 111
 
Chapter Recap 119
 
Chapter 7 How to Upgrade Your Game 121
 
The Benefits of Learning New Tricks 122
 
Learning and Healthy Aging 123
 
Getting Over the Hurdles 128
 
Chapter Recap 135
 
Chapter 8 How to Have the "What's Next?"
 
Talk with Your Boss 137
 
The Time Is Now 138
 
Questions to Ask Yourself before the Big Meeting 140
 
Your Plan-and-Prepare Strategy 142
 
Carrying Out the "Ask" 146
 
Chapter Recap 158
 
Afterword 161
 
Resources 165
 
Ideas for Further Reading 165
 
Helpful Career Happiness Web Sites 169
 
Acknowledgments 173
 
About the Author 175
 
Index 177

About the author

KERRY HANNON (kerryhannon.com) is a nationally recognized authority on ca- reer transitions and retirement, a columnist for The New York Times and PBS Next Avenue, and a contributing writer at Forbes and MONEY. She has spent more than 25 years covering personal finance for leading media companies. She is the author of the bestselling Great Jobs for Everyone 50+ and the award-winning What's Next? Finding Your Passion and Your Dream Job in Your Forties, Fifties, and Beyond.

Summary

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.

Report

"It provides a great deal of actionable steps to take to enjoy work more. There is a good deal of useful data and interesting anecdotes" (The Marketing Society, June 2015)

Product details

• Authors: KE Hannon, Kerry Hannon, Kerry E Hannon, Kerry E. Hannon
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2015
• EAN: 9781118898062
• ISBN: 978-1-118-89806-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Karriere, Wirtschaft, Personalwesen, Business & management, Advice on careers and achieving success, Wirtschaft u. Management, Personal Career Development