Making A Living While Making A Difference

Melissa Everett

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While we are enjoying the lowest unemployment rate in decades, our need to mesh career with purpose is at an all-time high.

And, as business and society continue to place greater emphasis on social and environmental responsibility, opportunities for career-seekers with a conscience have never been better.

This completely revised second edition of Making a Living While Making a Difference updates the rapidly expanding career opportunities in socially responsible and green business, industry, commerce, and non-profits.

Professional career counselor Melissa Everett guides the reader through a 10-step program for career development that stresses personal fulfillment, integrity, and contribution.

Unlike traditional career guides that focus on defining skill areas, Making a Living While Making a Difference focuses on personal, social, and environmental values as the driving force for career decisions.

Expanded and updated self-assessments, exercises, and visualizations point the reader toward defining their personal area of commitment.

Compelling stories such as the origins of the Endangered Species Chocolate Company or the success of Stonyfield Farm, the feisty little yogurt company,illustrate how ordinary people are doing good and doing well.

Everett provides a compassionate self-help framework for dealing with the unique challenges of establishing and maintaining a value-driven life/work career path.

Whether a new job-seeker, job-changer, or someone who would like to make a difference right where they are, Making a Living While Making a Difference is the definitive "how-to-make-it-happen" guide for anyone who wants to customize their work lives to reflect their values more fully.

About the Author

Melissa Everett is a professional career counselor in private practice in Kingston, New York. She is an international public speaker and has presented to such distinguished audiences as Harvard Divinity School, MIT, Dartmouth College, and Radcliffe.

Everett is the recipient of the Olive Branch Award of the NYU Center on War, Peace and the News Media for her book Breaking Ranks.

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	Excellent!
	(Mexico) October 18, 2000 - 5.0/5 stars
	(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... read full review

	Biased towards environmental careers and not much else
	(Hartford, CT USA) September 8, 2002 - 2.0/5 stars
	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... read full review

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