How to Love the Job You Hate: Job Satisfaction for the 21st Century [Paperback]

Jane Boucher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2004

Can’t Stand Your Job? Scared of Your Boss? Suspect Your Co-Workers Are Talking About You Behind Your Back? You’re not alone! Half of all American workers experience job dissatisfaction. Internationally respected author and executive coach Jane Boucher can help with her book: How to Love the Job You Hate: Job Satisfaction for the 21st Century. Boucher shows workers how to cope with keeping their jobs in this difficult economy. How to Love the Job You Hate: Job Satisfaction for the 21st Century will change your attitude from TGIF to TGIM (Thank God It’s Monday).

Editorial Reviews

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"Jane Boucher hits the bull’s-eye: loving your job starts with loving yourself. She offers practical advice for improving both your attitude about your job and the job itself. Read this book because it’s a win-win—nothing’s better than liking yourself and your job, too."—Dr. Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager® and Full Steam Ahead

About the Author

Jane Boucher, CSP, owns Boucher Consultants, a nationally recognized business consultancy specializing in maximizing personnel resources. Boucher, a former newspaper columnist, has written two other books (Patients First, The Body-Mind Connection and the Assertive Communication Workbook) besides the original How to Love the Job You Hate (Thomas Nelson, 1994).

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Beagle Bay Books (March 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967959101
• ISBN-13: 978-0967959108
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,376,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Features twelve ways to renew enthusiasm and satisfaction, July 16, 2004

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This review is from: How to Love the Job You Hate: Job Satisfaction for the 21st Century (Paperback)

How To Love The Job You Hate: Job Satisfaction For The 21st Century by business consultant Jane Boucher is especially recommended for anyone dissatisfied with the conditions or circumstances of their employment, unhappy with the nature of their job or the limitations of their career options. How To Love The Job You Hate features twelve ways to renew enthusiasm and satisfaction with your job; three key strategies to get along with irritating bosses; eight effective methods for coping with difficult co-workers; five ways to deal with dysfunctional corporate cultures; more than twenty specific techniques for handling job loss, leaving a bad job, and deciding just when to strike out on your own. Of specific value for employers and managers is the section devoted to retaining good workers. How To Love The Job You Hate is an invaluable addition personal, corporate, or community library reference collections.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sensible Steps to Greater Happiness at Work, May 11, 2004

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Marion Gropen "publishing consultant" (Gropen Associates, NY, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Love the Job You Hate: Job Satisfaction for the 21st Century (Paperback)

This book helps you understand the elements of your unhappiness, and find ways to change the situation for the better. It is filled, from cover to cover, with sensible, practical ways to make change one of the biggest parts of your life: your career.

This book would have helped most of the unhappy workers I have known. There is also a section for employers that might prevent many people from needing help, if its suggestions are applied. If you are ready to fix the problems that are making you less happy than you could be, or if you know someone who might be ready to take charge of their happiness at work, then this is a good book to begin with.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read before you quit because you "hate" your job, January 8, 2006

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Paul Lappen (Manchester, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Love the Job You Hate: Job Satisfaction for the 21st Century (Paperback)

For a variety of reasons, everyone seems to hate their job these days. This book shows how to discover just what the problem may be, and how to fall back in love with your job.

What sort of personality do you have? Are you a detail-person, interested in analysis and interpretation of information, who finds yourself in a people-person job? Are you a support-person, best suited for a backroom job, in a command-person position? Delegate the things you don't like to do. Build a good relationship with your boss and co-workers. Try learning something new. Understand the temperament of your boss. Listen to, and communicate with, your co-workers. Take a hard look at yourself; consider the image you present to your co-workers.

Stress is a part of daily life; learn how to reduce it, both physically and emotionally. Perhaps Mr. or Ms. Rotten Co-Worker is experiencing personal problems that are negatively affecting their ability to do their job. Also consider the sort of company that you work for. Someone who is more accustomed to a buttoned-down, structured environment might have a hard time at an internet start-up, and vice versa. There is a right way, and wrong way, to leave your job, if you have decided that quitting is your only option. The author also looks at criticism; how to give it, and receive it, along with the dreaded performance review. There is a separate section in this book just for bosses. It looks at subjects like personality clashes with employees, dealing with their needs, and how to keep them motivated.

This is an excellent and eye-opening book. It is easy to read, and can certainly reduce rampant job dissatisfaction in America. Before you quit because you "hate" your job, read this book.