Making A Living While Making A Difference - Softcover

Everett, Melissa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865714002 ISBN 13: 9780865714007

Publisher: New Society Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

While we are enjoying the lowest unemployment rate in decades, our need to mesh career with purpose is at an all-time high. And, as business and society continue to place greater emphasis on social and environmental responsibility, opportunities for career-seekers with a conscience have never been better.

This completely revised second edition of Making a Living While Making a Difference updates the rapidly expanding career opportunities in socially responsible and green business, industry, commerce, and non-profits. Professional career counselor Melissa Everett guides the reader through a 10-step program for career development that stresses personal fulfillment, integrity, and contribution. Unlike traditional career guides that focus on defining skill areas, Making a Living While Making a Difference focuses on personal, social, and environmental values as the driving force for career decisions. Expanded and updated self-assessments, exercises, and visualizations point the reader toward defining their personal area of commitment.

Compelling stories such as the origins of the Endangered Species Chocolate Company or the success of Stonyfield Farm, the feisty little yogurt company, illustrate how ordinary people are doing good and doing well. Everett provides a compassionate self-help framework for dealing with the unique challenges of establishing and maintaining a value-driven life/work career path. Whether a new job-seeker, job-changer, or someone who would like to make a difference right where they are, Making a Living While Making a Difference is the definitive "how-to-make-it-happen" guide for anyone who wants to customize their work lives to reflect their values more fully.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

PART ONE: THE WORK TO BE DONE

Self Employment
The Work to be Done
Headlines We'd Like to See, I: Environmental Protection and Renewal
Headlines We'd Like to See, II: Social Healing
Catalysts for a Positive Future: Occupations that Make a Difference

PART TWO: A TEN STEP PROGRAM FOR PRINCIPLED CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Step 1: Wake Up
Step 2: Stabilize Your Life
Step 3: Create a Vibrant Support System
Step 4: Turn On the Light of Connection W

About this title

From the Publisher:

In a nonjudgmental, supportive style, Everett leads the reader through self-tests and checklists that help examine personal inclinations and goals for a career with a conscience, assess its feasibility, and distinguish realistic-idealistic goals from impractical-idealistic goals. Everett outlines a program for career development in eleven easy-to-follow steps that stress practicality, innovation, and vision. She gives tips for job-seekers, for job-changers, and even for those who want to revitalize their working lives while working with a conscience right where they are. With this guide, readers will become survivors in a challenging business climate as they face their dilemmas about doing good while doing well, develop multiple employment options, and vigorously cultivate their entrepreneurial skills and spirit. The book also predicts emerging, secure career fields around the world that will be environmentally sustainable, meet long-term basic needs, and reflect social values. Using trend analysis, detailed case studies, extensive resource lists, and numerous exercises, readers will learn how to discover and create myriad opportunities to make their job make a difference.

About the Author:

Melissa Everett is a professional career counselor in private practice in Kingston, New York. She is an international public speaker and has presented to such distinguished audiences as Harvard Divinity School, MIT, Dartmouth College, and Radcliffe. Everett is the recipient of the Olive Branch Award of the NYU Center on War, Peace and the News Media for her book Breaking Ranks.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0865714002
• ISBN 13: 9780865714007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256