The Money Is The Gravy: Finding The Career That Nourishes You [Hardcover]

John Clark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 18, 2003

Millions of people feel trapped, bored, depressed, and unfulfilled in their current jobs. But they stay because they think you're not supposed to like your job and buy into the misconception that the more money they earn, the happier they will become. THE MONEY IS THE GRAVY helps readers reexamine their lives and recognize what is truly important to them. Clark's message is that everyone has a true vocation or calling and those who follow theirs are happiest in their life and work. This is a career book with a real difference it's fun to read. John Clark illustrates his important, life-changing messages with Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, and other amusing cartoons and terrific side-bars with quotes from everyone from Woody Allen to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. THE MONEY IS THE GRAVY will serve as an invaluable guidebook for anyone who finds themselves in their office thinking there's got to be more to life than this.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

If you're trapped in an unfulfilling career, take comfort in knowing it's not just you-according to New Zealander Clark, job depression is a global phenomenon. Clark writes about the despondency that comes with an unrewarding profession and how he dealt with it himself (he was a former commercial lawyer) in this positive but unimaginative guide. In the spirit of the 1980s classic Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow, Clark encourages readers to choose happiness over money and to "follow your bliss." He does this in an entertaining manner, enlivening the text with cartoons like Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes and quotations by everyone from St. Augustine to Lucille Ball. The book is light on concrete strategies for making a life-altering career transition, serving more as an inspirational tool. In that way, it's more spiritual than most career manuals, exhorting job seekers to leave behind their angst-ridden cubicle lives and do what truly appeals to their inner selves.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"A delightful read and an excellent guide for your journey through work...and life!" -- Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

"A joy to read because of its great insight and age old wisdom updated for the benefit of all." -- Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine and Miracles and Prescriptiions for Living

"A marvelous investment in yourself that will prove profitable in work and life in more ways than you might think." -- Jon Kabat-Zinn, Author: Wherever You Go, There You Are

"Brilliant! Unique! This is no ordinary self-help, personal growth book...it is thoughtful, helpful, readable. I wish I'd written it." -- Tom Peters, In Search of Excellence

"Make time to read this book. It's enjoyable and could change your relationship to work for the better...Highly recommended." -- Stephan Rechtschaffen, author of Time Shifting -- Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life

This thoroughly enjoyable book is a true beacon of light for those struggling at the crossroads of life." -- Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Warner Business Books (March 18, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446529184
• ISBN-13: 978-0446529181
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,790,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You don't have to be trapped., October 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Money Is The Gravy: Finding The Career That Nourishes You (Hardcover)

I'm not a self-help kind of a person, but this book has helped inspire me to pursue a meaningful career that is based on what makes my soul feel good, not just my bank account. This book has practical information on making a positive change that is so important now, as people are remaining in careers that bring them absolutely no gratification or inner peace, but a nice paycheck. This book helped me realize that at 40, I want the last half of my working years to be fruitful on a personal note, not just financially. If you enjoy what you're doing, the money will follow, or the lack of it won't be an issue. This book has helped me begin the process.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Missing Rosetta Stone---A must read!, August 1, 2003

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Jon Hanson "Author of Good Debt, Bad Debt" (Reynoldsburg, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Money Is The Gravy: Finding The Career That Nourishes You (Hardcover)

I greatly enjoyed the book The Money is the Gravy. I have struggled with the question of career versus self-actualization for more than twenty years. For most of that time I have been in the real estate business. I became proficient in my business yet never found joy in it.

Sometimes I felt like I had been working on a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle without the box lid that has the picture of the finished puzzle-The Money is the Gravy was the box lid with the picture on top of it. The picture of the puzzle was on page 68. X marks the spot where skill, meaning, and enjoyment converge.

I have finally accepted there will be little joy as long as I am in an ill-fitting occupation.

You will enjoy Clarks "voice" and the way he uses subtle humor, cartoons, pull quotes and many historical references. This is a style I enjoy reading.

I highly recommend this book. Don't wait twenty years to figure it out like I did. Books about making money are plentiful--this one tells you how to be happy and make money.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most important piece of reading I have done concerning my career!, December 3, 2006

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James M. Moll "beebop" (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Money is in the Gravy: Finding the Career that Nourishes You (Paperback)

If you are an INFP, on the Myers Briggs personality preference inventory, I hope you read this book. I found much of myself in this book and was able to fill in the missing pieces to many of the reasons that I am not satisfied with my career. I have started on a new career path of my own. Thanks to this book I have more understanding and courage to make a change in my life at 42 years old.