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050 4 $aHF5381$b.B63512 1981
082 04 $a158.1$bB691t-p, 1981
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aBolles, Richard Nelson.
245 14 $aThe three boxes of life :$band how to get out of them : an introduction to life/work planning /$cRichard Nelson Bolles.
260 $aBerkeley, Calif. :$bTen Speed Press,$c©1981.
300 $a466 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. The three boxes of life -- The box-like nature of your life -- Your four major issues -- Ways of dealing with those issues -- The nature of the three boxes -- 2. How to get out of them: Life/work planning -- Definitions of Life/work planning -- The meaning of a crisis in your life -- Two ways in which people help you -- Taking charge of your own life -- How to find the time -- The victim mentality, and how to avoid it -- 3. Toward a balanced life: Life long learning -- How we fashion the first box for ourselves -- A picture of all your educational possibilities -- Keys to your own self-directed exploration -- A. What's happening -- Principles of exclusion you can use -- How to find out anything you want to know -- Shyness, and what to do about it -- Switchboards or resource brokers you can use -- B. Survival -- Two types of teaching -- The two sides of your brain -- The educational spinning wheel -- The most overlooked key to your educational survival -- A guide to finances -- How to keep at your studies -- The ten most important things in your life -- C. Meaning or mission -- Ten reasons for getting an education, at any time of life -- Learning how to deal with statistics -- The limits of our senses, and what to do about them -- Self-development courses: how to check them out -- Constancy and change -- How to pick a course that will enable you to meet the people you want to meet -- Your education and your skills -- Erroneous ideas about skills -- Your roles in life, and the skills needed to do them -- Degrees and credentials; a second look -- The nature of humor -- Elements in a philosophy of life -- D. Effectiveness -- The difference between effectiveness, and evaluation -- How to get, or give, feedback -- Time for action vs. time for reflection.
505 0 $a4. Toward a balanced life: Life long working -- A. What's happening in the world of work -- Your job as an information-gathering system -- Principles for organizing all that you know about the world of work -- The importance of people environments -- A map of the world of work -- The defects of occupational forecasts -- When you're looking for a really unusual occupation: how to find it -- Outdoor jobs -- B. Survival in the world of work -- How many people are really unemployed -- The effectiveness or ineffectiveness of job-search methods -- Rules for survival job-hunting -- Reasons that interviews don't lead to job offers -- Switchboards for survival -- The secret of holding on to your present job -- C. Finding meaning and mission in the world of work -- Your work-life expectancy -- How much of your time needs major planning -- Seven myths about the job-market -- Job-hunting tribes, and their special problems -- Aids to remembering -- How to take a job apart and put it back together, in a new form -- How to inventory your skills -- Exercises for raising your self-esteem -- Contacts, redefined -- Resumes, in new disguises -- How much of a raise to ask for -- D. Measuring your effectiveness in the world of work -- Motivations for working -- Criteria for evaluating your job -- The sources of work dissatisfaction -- The eight keys to enjoying your job -- How to improve your effectiveness -- Your job and your need to be loved -- Keeping a work diary -- Downward mobility -- Job-sharing, flexi-time and the split week.
505 0 $a5. Toward a balanced life: Life long leisure or playing -- The three orgies of life -- How to enjoy leisure in your early years, your middle years, and your later years -- Retirement vs. disengagement from life -- A. What's happening in the world of retirement -- How to learn about retirement before you get there -- The elderly and statistics -- How to tell the wheat from the chaff -- B. Survival in the world of retirement -- Physical survival: when drugs & doctors can't help -- Financial survival -- Emotional survival -- The husband and wife in retirement: idyl or nightmare -- Three rules for dealing with stress -- Principles of spiritual survival -- The secret of healing -- C. Meaning and mission during retirement -- The life-cycle of housewives -- Geriacracy: its meaning and power -- D. Effectiveness in retirement -- Your life review, and how to do it; how to draw your life line -- Tools for making join decisions -- Alone and what to do about it -- Singledom -- What to do so that people won't run when they see us coming -- E. Lifelong leisure or playing -- How much leisure you should have -- When you're too busy to find time for leisure -- How to deal with the Puritan within you -- The importance of an alternating rhythm in your life -- The error of labeling 'leisure activities' -- How to be more satisfied -- how to find variety in your leisure -- Constructing a map of your leisure activities -- Games, crafts, and guidebooks -- A word about playfulness -- Epilogue.
505 0 $aAppendix A: How to prioritize a list of anything -- Appendix B: Services offered you by the NCDP -- Appendix C: Different spokes for different folks -- Appendix D: The quick job-hunting map -- Appendix E: What needs doing: A guide to your own planning -- Appendix F: Evaluation: or The issue of an individual worker's effectiveness looked at from the employer's point of view.
590 $bArchive
650 0 $aVocational guidance.
650 0 $aEducation.
650 0 $aRetirement.
650 0 $aSuccess.
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