Making a Living While Making a Difference (Paperback)

by Melissa Everett (Author)

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This ten-step program for identifying personal goals and matching them with job strengths and employment avenues provides an excellent workbook for identifying personal values and matching them with job opportunities. Let go of work assumptions with the aid of this fine guide. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Description
A guide for job-seekers who want a career that expresses their ethics and spiritual values identifies emerging, stable career fields around the world that are environmentally friendly, meet long-term needs, and reflect social values.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 343 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (July 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553374109
• ISBN-13: 978-0553374100
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,337,903 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is one of the best career guides ever written., November 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Making A Living While Making A Difference (Paperback)

Melissa Everett has done all of us a great service by writing this book. Her ten-step process alone is worth the price of admission. As a career advisor with The Environmental Careers Organization, I tell anyone interested in a socially-responsible career - get this book!

51 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Biased towards environmental careers and not much else, September 8, 2002

By	I. Das "Das" (Hartford, CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Making A Living While Making A Difference (Paperback)

I'm going to offer a point of view different from the rest. I think this book focusses almost exclusively on environmental issues, and practically equates "making a difference" to "saving the environment". Well, yes, there are remarks about "improving society", but no clear path to doing any of those things. (...) The book does not contain any lead into careers that address world poverty or undernourished children or any of the other burning issues that affect the world everyday, unlike a dwindling dolphin population. Not that I don't think that a dwindling dolphin population is an important issue, but it is less important than starving children groping through some rubble heap in search of food. In fact, unless that part of the "starving population" is reeled out of poverty, they will continue to have dire impact on the environment faster than any socially-responsible fund manager can write out "green" dividend checks. This book provides "first-world denizens" the distorted view that fixing environmental issues is all there is to it (and calls itself "The Expanded Guide"). This is most likely related to the author's own background and focus on environmental issues. But it doesn't measure up for me.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, October 18, 2000

By	Ron Mader "Planeta.com Founder" (Mexico) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Making A Living While Making A Difference (Paperback)

(From Planeta Journal) - This is a guide to "creating careers with a conscience." Can we ask for anything less? Authored by Melissa Everett, this second edition is an excellent resource guide for anyone interested in making the world a better place. The book provides a 10-step program for career development and offers advice to career counselors. It is an imaginative and valuable tool for anyone thinking about their career. Highly recommended.