It's all in your head: thinking your way to happiness: the 8 essential secrets to leading a life without regrets by by Stephen M. Pollan & Mark Levine

Author:by Stephen M. Pollan & Mark Levine [Pollan, by Stephen M. & Levine, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780060759995
Publisher: New York : Collins, c2005.
Published: 2006-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

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casionally gets a call from a human resources department for further information, and she’s gone on a couple of interviews for jobs for which she is overqualified. But all things considered, her efforts have been unsuccessful.

The last straw came when Penny answered an ad that could have been written specifically for her. Despite obviously fitting the requirements to a tee, she didn’t get a call back. That convinced her she needed help. But she didn’t know where to turn.

As an only child, Penny had no siblings to turn to for help. Of her close friends, two were stay-at-home moms who hadn’t been in the job market for years and the third was a school-teacher who had been at the same junior high school for more than twenty years. Penny worried that if she approached any of her vendor contacts, they’d leak word to her employer that she was looking for another job. There was one possibility: a new manager, Melissa, who had come to the store after stints in public relations, advertising, and television production. Penny decided to ask Melissa for help.

Penny knew there would be obstacles to Melissa’s helping her out. Since she and Melissa were peers, they could conceivably be competing for the same jobs in the future. In addition, it was possible Melissa might let word slip that Penny was looking for another job. Despite those potential problems, Penny thought Melissa was the best person to ask since she’d obviously been able to change careers repeatedly. While she wouldn’t have minded some general career-changing advice, Penny decided to narrow her request.

Early one morning, Penny waited outside the store for Melissa to arrive. When she did, Penny made her pitch:

“Melissa, I have a problem and need your help. I’ve never met anyone who has been able to move from one industry to another as well as you have. I’ve been investigating ways to shift industries, but I don’t think I’ve got a handle on things. I’d 1 0 8

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love to get your advice. Would you mind taking a look at my résumé?”

“Could You Give Me My Inheritance Early?”

Ken Walker, fifty-one, has finally found the perfect business.

The problem is that he doesn’t have enough money to buy it.

For years, Ken, a stocky man with closely cropped gray hair, searched for the right opportunity. Although he made a good living working in the finance department of a major insurance company, he never really enjoyed his job. But while his kids were growing up and his wife, Patricia, was getting her postgraduate degrees, he needed the security it offered. Still, he spent hours each weekend reading about franchise opportunities and looking through newspapers and trade magazines for businesses that were up for sale. Two years ago, Patricia landed a job as a full-time professor at a local college.

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