[HN Gopher] Managing Oneself (2005)
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       Managing Oneself (2005)
        
       Author : bx376
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-07-07 18:04 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | joe_the_user wrote:
       | Edit: Oh shit, I'm wrong below....
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       | Peter Drucker, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?
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       | I have to say that while that book is likely "good for what it
       | is", I utterly and completely despised it for what it was
       | promoted as. Essentially, What Color Is Your Parachute was the
       | standard thing that career councilors promoted for how to find a
       | job - however it gives the ordinary seeker of an ordinary job
       | nothing whatsoever but rather just tells everyone "become unique
       | and find your unique niche". Whether that's good or bad advice,
       | it's not the advice said ordinary seeker asked for and it was
       | shitty trick that ordinary career counselors handed job seekers
       | this book by default.
        
         | Jtsummers wrote:
         | No, Drucker didn't write _What Color Is Your Parachute?_ , that
         | was written by Richard Nelson Bolles (had to look it up, I'd
         | never heard of it before now).
        
         | abeyer wrote:
         | Maybe we just have vastly different understandings of
         | "ordinary" job seekers, "ordinary" career counselors, and why
         | they'd interact... but I'm not sure I get the point?
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         | Isn't the book the basis of exactly what one would want a
         | career counselor for? I'd expect a counselor to bring more
         | personal and customized advice along, too, but telling someone
         | to start with understanding the book doesn't seem like a bad
         | approach. Now it's true that if what you're trying to do is get
         | a job tomorrow, then yes, the book isn't going to help much
         | with that... but that's not why I'd visit a career counselor
         | either.
        
       | seism wrote:
       | "Of all the important pieces of self-knowledge, understanding how
       | you learn is the easiest to acquire." It's also not something
       | that needs to be kept private, is it? I haven't come across too
       | many people expressing their preference on social media profiles
       | and such. As if we are worried about getting bombarded by edu-
       | spam.
        
       | m463 wrote:
       | The astronaut in the photo should learn to tuck his pant legs
       | into his boots, especially in a vacuum.
        
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