Job Hunt Quotes

“The job you seek isn't out there in some job description, it's already inside you, aching to get out.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“Use affirmations as statements of becoming, not statements of being.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“Hiding or lying about your age is giving in to ageism. Don't do it! Be proud of who you are, what you know and what you've accomplished.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“In order to create your future, you have to reconcile your past.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“Chase career relationships, not job postings.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“Getting fired is not shameful. It just means you need to find a better fit.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“You hear a lot about "digital natives." Well, baby boomers are the "digital founders.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“For many of us, the job-hunt offers a chance to make some fundamental changes in our whole life. It marks
a turning point in how we live our life.
It gives us a chance to ponder and reflect, to extend our mental horizons, to go deeper into the subsoil
of our soul.
It gives us a chance to wrestle with the question, “Why am I here on Earth?” We don’t want to feel that
we are just another grain of sand lying on the beach called humanity, unnumbered and lost in the billions
of other human beings.
We want to do more than plod through life, going to work, coming home from work. We want to find
that special joy, “that no one can take from us,” which comes from having a sense of Mission in our life.
We want to feel we were put here on Earth for some special purpose, to do some unique work that only
we can accomplish.
We want to know what our Mission is.”
― Richard N. Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

“Practice empathy rather than sympathy.”
― John Tarnoff

“How's the job hunt going? I said. She sighed. I can't help laughing when people do stupid things, she said, so basically I'm unemployable.”
― Brian Andreas, Theories of Everything