What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

THE FINAL WORD:
Notes from the Author for This
Edition
I am the sole researcher, writer, and layout artist of this book—with some
help, at the end, from my friends over at Ten Speed Press. And I’ve been
doing this for 47 years in a row, which I’m told is some kind of publishing
record. I’m often asked, Do you ever get tired of all this? Well, it would
have been nice to retire, 25 years ago, but that is just not my nature. I love
helping people, and every year I learn new things that I think will help
people. So, I have to keep writing. This year I’m all up on the
unemployment marketplace, robotics, IoT (the Internet of Things), the
Economy, and a dozen other subjects. I write for LinkedIn (I’m one of
their “Influencers”), and I write for AARP’s Life Reimagined Project, and
for Australia’s kikki.k project. And I love it.
But the focus of this book is not on me. It’s on You. You are the heroes
and heroines of this book. You are the ones who struggle to make life
work, who tell me of your victories (and defeats). You are the inventive
ones. You are the ones who tell me solutions to job-hunting or careerchanging
problems that puzzle me.
I know that this book demands a lot of every reader, just as life demands
a lot of all of us, and I am amazed at how many of the over ten million
people who have bought this book (in one of its annual editions) are
willing to sit down and do the hard work of the Self-Inventory in chapters
7 and 8.
It takes more than one person to create a book. My particular thanks this
year go to Lisa Westmoreland and Marci M. Bolles. Lisa is the executive
editor at Ten Speed Press and has helped greatly with the form and
updating of this 2018 edition. And Marci has helped greatly with the
typing of this manuscript.
My gratitude also to George Young for his help with updating my