Take This Job and Thrive: 60 Ways to Make Life More Rewarding in Today's New Workplace - Softcover

Are you avoiding snipers and tanks roaming your office hallways? Are you getting nosebleeds from working at the top? Do you stomp on everyone's toes? Are you blind under paperwork, with no clear sky in sight? If you answer "yes" to any of these questions, it's time to dig yourself out of that work rut and learn how to thrive in your workplace-and in your career. One of the nation's leading syndicated career and workplace writers shares her advice on key workplace issues such as: career planning, personal improvement, work environment, work problems, and communication. Filled with informative and entertaining stories of real-life job triumphs and catastrophes, this book provides sound advice on how to deal with everything from office politics to business etiquette, entertaining, and obnoxious co-workers. Based on interviews with hundreds of employers and employees, it also shows readers how to improve and balance personal life so that their work life is more rewarding and productive. Resurrect your worklife and reinvent your career with this rich resource for dealing with today's challenging workplace.

Career and workplace specialist Bruzzese, who writes the nationally syndicated "On the Job" column, uses the results of her interviews with hundreds of employers and employees to offer a book full of advice on how to successfully navigate the rocky shoals of the workplace to secure a productive work life. Her handbook, presented in a succinct format but rendered with rousing spirit, discusses such topics as how to be the best "commodity" you can be in your place of employment, so that your name isn't on the next pink-slip list; sprucing and juicing up your work environment, in both psychological and material terms; constructing a career strategy to keep you on the right track for your needs and interests; troubleshooting workplace problems, which are usually personnel related; and improving your all-important communication skills. Sound, commonsense ideas couched in encouragement. Brad Hooper