1 An Introduction to Career Development What Does It Mean to Have a Career?
This book is about careers and how they develop, but to understand what it means to have a career, we should begin at a more foundational level, specifically, work and the role it plays in our lives. The meaningfulness of work in life has global and enduring appeal, as observed in this quote attributed to the Buddha: “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” A later observer of careers, B.C. Forbes, the founder of Forbes magazine, recognized the path may not be an easy one: “Think of yourself not as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering ...
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