Former Reason Editor Virginia Postrel has an interesting essay in The New York Times Book Review about the latest edition of the job-hunting classic What Color Is Your Parachute. A snippet:
The point of a life-changing job hunt is to find work that makes you happy. This idea makes the book not only practical, but intellectually contrarian. [Max] Weber claimed that Protestantism divested work of its earthly delight, making it purely a religious duty, while capitalism destroyed that delight forever.
"What Color Is Your Parachute?" is an extended market-grounded argument that Weber was wrong. A century after "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" was published, the best-selling book about job hunting is an explicitly Protestant guide to finding joy at work.
Whole thing here.
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|1.16.05 @ 9:19PM|#
The world turned upside-down:
Postrel is Ms. Jesus, and Gillespie is her John the Baptist, but on bizarro H&R, their time-line is reversed.
"The point of a life-changing job hunt is to find work that makes you happy."
Happiness is like one of Jesus' parables: perks your ears up, but doesn't withstand scrutiny.
Google here Ogden Nash's The Anatomy of Happiness, a poem.
|1.16.05 @ 9:47PM|#
...but on bizarro H&R
Don't you mean BIZARRO bizarro H&R?
|1.16.05 @ 10:18PM|#
Google here Ogden Nash's The Anatomy of Happiness, a poem.
Nash is all wet. As ye sow, so shall ye reap, says I.
|1.17.05 @ 10:00AM|#
Who needs a parachute, when my "One Minute Manager" can't seem to get "Raving Fans" when using the "Fish Philosophy" or "GungHo!"?
And another thing - I think those bastards the so-called "Raving Fans" - have move my cheese!
|1.17.05 @ 1:45PM|#
Maybe you need a One-Minute Parachute, you seem to be having a lot of trouble there.