Get a Life, Not a Job

Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work For You

Ph.D. Paula Caligiuri

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ISBN-10: 0-13-705849-7
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Caligiuri, Paula.
  Get a life, not a job : do what you love and let your talents work for you / Paula
Caligiuri.
       p. cm.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  ISBN-13: 978-0-13-705849-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  ISBN-10: 0-13-705849-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)  1.  Vocational guidance. 2.  Career
development.  I. Title.
  HF5381.C25316 2010
  650.1—dc22
                                                                 2009051715

Dedication

To Judy, Harvey, and Rick for sage guidance and unconditional love over many years