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Career Advice and Fun Stuff
Vocational advice is available from many sources, even
the Cheshire Cat. Maybe Alice thought she was asking for
walking instructions, but here at Kohlenberg & Associates,
we see career wisdom in the cat's words. The felicitous
feline seems to be saying, "Choose your job goal before
you decide on the steps of your vocational path," with the
implication that you could end up somewhere you hadn't planned
to be, if you don't plan ahead.
We'll try to provide some wise words and silly stuff to
keep you laughing along your journey to find the perfect
job. [See the purple elephant!]
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The
perfect job is like a purple elephant —
easy to envision, hard to find. |
Articles
Betty has written numerous guides and articles. They are available
as part of her career counseling, ADA consulting, seminars,
workshops and vocational evaluation services. The following
articles are available to read here:
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Wisdom from the Maxims of
Marcel Proust—
"The absence of something is
not merely that. Rather than simply a partial deprivation,
it is an upsetting of everything. It is a new state of mind
which could not have been foreseen."
"The remedy for an unhappy occurrence
is a decision. It interrupts the flow of thoughts that
come from the past event and prolong its vibration by
a reverse flow of contrary thoughts coming from the outside,
from the future."
"Illness is the most heeded of doctors:
to goodness and wisdom we only make promises: we obey
pain."
"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics."
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I have a liking for honest work,
and honest work as I see it is work that is done for the
worker's enjoyment as much as for the profit it will bring
him. And henceforth that's my work.
—Dashiell Hammett
author of the Sam Spade novels
including The Maltese Falcon
in a letter to his editor
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy!
When work is duty, life is slavery.
—Maxim Gorky
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and
poverty.
—Voltaire
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The difference
between transformation by accident and transformation
by systematic design is like the difference between
lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but one
is dangerous and unreliable — the other is safe, directed,
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Vocational planning is more likely to light your way to
a career you can live with. You can design
your vocational path rather than just accepting the
jobs that happen to be offered.
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