“Looking for work using the old methodology is a form of insanity.”
I talk about how I came to write the book, Ground of Your Own Choosing, and discuss its premise, that everything about the world of work has changed—except how we go about finding it.
It’s important for me to get out of the office on a regular basis and talk with groups of people who, in the neat language of business jargon, are part of a statistic called “job churn,” the movement of people in and out of the labor market. Right now, churn—which suggests violent splashing—is making us [...]
If you’re a regular reader of this newsletter, you may be as tired of hearing about my book as you are of the presidential campaign. I’ve been coming at you with it for longer than the election has dominated the news, starting in January, 2007, when I devoted this newsletter to presenting one chapter a [...]
It’s pretty clear to most baby boomers that they will be creating, either by choice or circumstances, a very different kind of retirement from their parents, for whom it simply meant, stop working. Retirement was first quantified in 1935, when the Social Security Administration gave it the number, 65. At the time, the average lifespan [...]
When tea became trendy, I gave in and, with a sigh, supplemented my grandmother’s depression glass dishes with a few pieces from the new array of tea service paraphernalia available in gift shops. When yoga started to become an “in thing,” promoted in slick videos and shops such as the one near my home called [...]
Last month the manuscript of my first book, Ground of Your Own Choosing, finally went to the publisher. You can’t imagine the relief I feel to be approaching the completion of this intense, time-devouring project. Putting your voice in the world in whatever form your creativity takes—writing a book, designing a bridge, developing a branding [...]
Volume 6 of the newsletter, January-December, 2007, consists of the serialized chapters of Ground of Your Own Choosing by Beverly Ryle. Because the content of these issues is available in revised and expanded form in the book, as of December, 2007 it is no longer available online.
A journey is the trip after you’ve lost you’re luggage.—Anonymous (quoted by William Bridges) This winter marks the official beginning of a book I have decided to write which will explain my approach to work search to the world. For weeks, I’d been trying to come up with an outline that satisfied me, but [...]
