The book Life After Loss by Bob Diets has been enormously helpful to me on more than one occasion. The book is described as “A Personal Guide Dealing with Death, Divorce, Job Change and Relocation.” It provides a positive, sensitive approach for ‘successful recovery from painful loss, including the death of a loved one or friend, divorce, relocation, job loss, retirement, major surgery or onset of chronic illness.” The book provides useful exercises and charts to assist in working through your grief. It is a roadmap that reassures that we are not alone in our pain, a ‘practical guide to people who have difficulty in finding their way back after profound ordeals.’ [Read more →]

Category: Career · Corporate Employment · Divorce · Environments · Relationships · Relocating

I find the Career News to be helpful at times. I get it automatically (free) every week or so. Somewhere in here, you too can subscribe!!

At the end, you will note that you can get 250 free business cards. Friends have opted to do this, with success, but I do not have my own personal experiences on ordering cards.

The Resume Rabbit that they usually recommend, as a way to post resumes on multiple sites, was helpful to me in the past, but also resulted in lots of spam. Hence, I subscribe to Earthlink, which has a spamblocker program with it. . . .just things to think about.

Good luck on your career moves!!!

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I have not yet read the book, but it is on order: Marci Alboher is author of the book One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success (Warner Books, 2007). I’ll tell you more once I read it, but the title sounds encouraging to anyone who feels they are unusual if they have switched careers.

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I was really heartened to see this article that uses a holistic approach to helping people improve their lives. Although this article is about a jobs program in Wyoming, for single moms, it seems to be an approach that would be transferable to other areas.

Hurrah for creative thinking!!!

Outgoing link, New York Times: A New Job Track for Single Mothers in Wyoming

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Losing one’s job or career can be devastating, as we get such a sense of Self through our work–or at least many of us do. In fact, my book ChangeArtist was written in part as a response to an unanticipated ‘inflection point’ (a point of significant change) in my career path. I cannot express enough my sorrow if your change has been loss of a much needed-job, or loss of career identity. I can empathize! [Read more →]

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