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Job Spa: 12 Weeks to Refresh, Refocus, and Recommit to Your Career
Does your boss ignore you?
Is your career going nowhere?
Are you just going through the motions?
If so, you need a trip to the Job Spa. Inside, authors Milo Sindell and Thuy Sindell detail an easy-to-master program that shows you how to reengage with your work and approach your career with new levels of energy and enthusiasm. Doing so will enable you Job Twelve Weeks to Refresh, Refocus, and Recommit to Your Career is all you need to get excited, get noticed, and get ahead-once and for all.
Is your career going nowhere?
Are you just going through the motions?
If so, you need a trip to the Job Spa. Inside, authors Milo Sindell and Thuy Sindell detail an easy-to-master program that shows you how to reengage with your work and approach your career with new levels of energy and enthusiasm. Doing so will enable you Job Twelve Weeks to Refresh, Refocus, and Recommit to Your Career is all you need to get excited, get noticed, and get ahead-once and for all.
288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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August 31, 2024
Okay, so why did I even decide to read this book in the first place? I think I got it in a gift basket for some work event ages ago, so I didn’t really choose it; it chose me. Self help from 2008 with a sketchy title like that—not a high probability of a scintillating read.
I was clearing up my book shelves and was considering it for the trash when I noticed the back cover advertises it as “The antidote to burnout!” I wouldn’t say I’m burnt out, but I have been kind of blah at work, so I gave it a look. Right up front, the book talks about the need to “give and take” 100% from your job. Well, tell me more! I would love to have some ideas as to how to accomplish this. (I’m probably already taking 90%+, but I’d certainly like to get the rest.)
Well, this book certainly has lots of advice about how to give 100%, delivered in the most insipid terms, but I think there might possibly be up to 10 sentences on taking. And none of them have any actual action steps. Oh wait, I recall something about talking to your manager, but don’t push too much if they happen to be a monster.
The whole “spa” idea from the title makes it sound like you’re going to do something for yourself, but in this case, you’re mostly going to do good things for your employer. There is some advice on how to get your company to notice you, but nothing on how to turn that into coin, or perks, or anything other than more work. (Which, btw, sounds more like the cause of burnout than the antidote.)
Sure, I could have stopped reading any time, but I sometimes like a good spite read—the self help genre can be gold for that. But also, I was hoping the authors would deliver something on that “taking 100%” idea. Alas!
This book was written in 2008, pre-Covid and prior to the new wave of somewhat increased employee power. It doesn’t deliver on fully 1/2 of its premise. A book that actually did would be gold right now.
I was clearing up my book shelves and was considering it for the trash when I noticed the back cover advertises it as “The antidote to burnout!” I wouldn’t say I’m burnt out, but I have been kind of blah at work, so I gave it a look. Right up front, the book talks about the need to “give and take” 100% from your job. Well, tell me more! I would love to have some ideas as to how to accomplish this. (I’m probably already taking 90%+, but I’d certainly like to get the rest.)
Well, this book certainly has lots of advice about how to give 100%, delivered in the most insipid terms, but I think there might possibly be up to 10 sentences on taking. And none of them have any actual action steps. Oh wait, I recall something about talking to your manager, but don’t push too much if they happen to be a monster.
The whole “spa” idea from the title makes it sound like you’re going to do something for yourself, but in this case, you’re mostly going to do good things for your employer. There is some advice on how to get your company to notice you, but nothing on how to turn that into coin, or perks, or anything other than more work. (Which, btw, sounds more like the cause of burnout than the antidote.)
Sure, I could have stopped reading any time, but I sometimes like a good spite read—the self help genre can be gold for that. But also, I was hoping the authors would deliver something on that “taking 100%” idea. Alas!
This book was written in 2008, pre-Covid and prior to the new wave of somewhat increased employee power. It doesn’t deliver on fully 1/2 of its premise. A book that actually did would be gold right now.
September 9, 2019
This is really a fantastic book to read! I was invigorated and I am now 100 percent committed to do my job! Thank you!
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