C a r e e r Z e n
by Larry Daly, 'The JOB DOC'
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Your CAREER, Your LIFE WORK You will spend most of your life making a living. If you are now age 20, for instance, and plan to retire at 65, you can think: "I have 45 work years ahead. Long haul; lots of opportunity time. How can I best use them, to go how far?"Chapter 2. PEOPLE STUDY Everything we do is in the context of other people, so 'Peopling' is your #1 Study Project, all your life. Collecting people is more than merely gathering names, addresses and phone numbers. It is the purposeful study of each person, to network and contact and for other purposes, from references and ideas to money loans, choosing partners, making strategic affiliations, and more. This is not exploiting others, but preparation for forming alliances and power partnerships that benefit both parties, a two-way street of mutual benefit, because others study and network and ‘collect' you, also.
Chapter 3. Your Career In CONTEXT You do not live in a vacuum. Everything you do is in the context of other people. You live and work in a contextual environment of concurrent contemporary events, large and small, local and global, all human-oriented. It is essential to success in any career to know what is going on all around you, in every possible field of human endeavor, so you can see opportunities others will miss.
Chapter 4. Setting Your Career and Life GOALS If you want to get raises, promotions, and better jobs, reach the top of your profession, become wealthy, perform some athletic feat, or achieve some other difficult goal, or just be happy, in charge of your own life, you must first define that goal, to make it happen. For many people, 'Defining Your Goals' is today's most difficult problem. New careers appear and old ones vanish every day. Goal-setting and planning for careers and personal life in a world where there are so many options and everything keeps changing so fast is like living in Alice's Wonderland, where one must run twice as fast just to stay in place. You don't want to get stuck in the wrong one! Not to worry. Setting your own goals is not difficult. I'll show you several good solutions, right now.
Chapter 5. LONG-TERM CAREER DEVELOPMENT The 16 Stages in a Professional Career. How high do you want to climb on your career ladder? Where are you now? What do you have to start with? What is your first step, second step, third. . .? What is your PLAN?
Chapter 6. CAREER STRATEGIES AND TACTICS 7 Rules for Getting Raises Raise Rule #1. Never ever, ever, ever, ever, ask for a raise! Never! To have to 'ask' immediately puts you at a total disadvantage. What to do. Raise Rule #2 Always have a second income. Forty eight of the 50 basic careering ‘rules'. Career Rule #1 Always have a second income.
Chapter 7. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS Career Rule #49 Before you start to work for any company, prepare for your departure from that company. Keep in mind every morning that this might be your last day in this job, and be prepared to go out the door, just as you are. Career Rule #50: If you do not agree 100% with the goals, attitude, management, or any other aspect of the company you now work for, get out immediately. Leave. ASAP. That is the main purpose of having a second income - so that you can afford to be honest to yourself and to help you avoid becoming economically indentured by your needs and debts. And, in some cases, to save your 401K and to help you avoid going to prison, if your company is another Enron, Global Crossing, etc.
Chapter 8. YOUR PERSONAL CAREER SUPPORT TEAM ... and what they can do for you. After seeing how much there is to do in building a real career, you may now fully realize the value of having your own personal S-Team, among relatives, friends, and other career-oriented people, and work together on your common goals.
Chapter 9. TEAM MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH, and WRITING Putting some people together and calling them a team does not work. Telling them, "Just shut up and do what I tell you" will not create dedication, no matter how well you pay them, or how long or loud you demand, shout, intimidate, or browbeat them. The key word here is 'dedicated', and that means 'voluntary'; dedication can never come into existence by simple command, any more than can love, devotion, etc., automatically make them a real or effective team, or at all successful.
Chapter 10. How to Become an Expert Experts get paid more, enjoy more prestige, perks, autonomy, etc. You don't have to be a rocket scientist or college professor to be known as an expert or authority in your career subject. The word 'authority' comes from the word 'author'. To become an authority in your field, just write about it, then become a spokesperson, appear on news tv and in specials and features, etc. But, to be able to write well about something, you do have to know it well, and in effect, actually be something of an expert in it, with or without any advanced degrees. Here's how.
Chapter 11. Miscellaneous, and Executive Summary Review. Your Health and Your Career. To have a good career, you must first have reasonably good health. Health is not just having all your parts, but keeping what you have in good shape, and being able to work around problems, maybe by making something else do double duty. When you can't breathe, nothing else matters. If your heart isn't pumping, nothing else matters. If your brain, liver, and about 40 other parts and functions are there and working, and you know who you are and where you are, and what you want and where you are going, and can get around somehow, or get business to come to you, there's really not much else that can stop you from achieving virtually any goal in the world. Breathing. Smoking. Sitting. Exercise. Diet. Sleep. Emotions & Stress. Fear. Apathy. Self - defeat.
Chapter 12. Your Personal Research Sources To review, once you know your work and are good at it, and have set your goals and know where you are, and have started doing your Ten Major Tasks, then getting published in order to become an authority on your career work is the way to success, and the following items will help you make your research and self-promotion writing the best possible. Books. Periodicals. Contacts. Internet.
Chapter 13. Those "Awful People At Work" Problems. Not that difficult to solve. If you understand what makes others tick (usually the same things that make you tick), you can not only work with others, but manipulate and deal with them profitably. One easy rule, for instance, is that force creates resistance: when you compel people to do something, they hate you, may rebel, won't do it to the best of their ability, etc. But if you can get them to want to do something, they will like you for letting them. Remember how Tom Sawyer got the fence whitewashed? Putting into effect the results of people study, and this book.
Chapter 14. Assumptions and Expectations. It is up to you to be correct in these, yours about others, and those of others about you, and and about others and other things, and this requires serious and constant attention, but brings the best possible results for all concerned. I'll show you how. And a brief review summary of the principles of Career Zen.
Bibliography.
Index.
About the Author (Biographical data)
End of Table Of Contents
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