What Color Is Your Parachute?

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In the midst of these annual revisions, it’s time to pause for a moment and celebrate. Forty years! Yes. For forty years, so far, I’ve been writing, updating, and revising this book, every year. Well, I did miss one year—1975. But otherwise, every year.

It’s been more of a journal, than a book. A journal kept so far for forty years. New entries, new ideas, new events, every year. I often joke with people, when they ask how many books I’ve written over the years. The correct answer is ten. But, thinking only of Parachute, I say, “Forty—all with the same title, though different inside.”

The basic core has stayed the same since the beginning: Where do you go from here with your life? The answer to that has always boiled down to answering just three questions, and they have remained the same these forty years: WHAT, WHERE, and HOW. (WHAT are your favorite transferable skills? WHERE would you most like to be able to use those skills? And HOW do you find the name or names of that job, and the places that have such jobs, and the people with the power to hire you?) But around that core have spun dozens of new developments, year after year, like planets in orbit around the sun.

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