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Hardcover Hand-Me-Down Dreams: How Families Influence Our Career Paths and How We Can Reclaim Them Book

ISBN: 060980264X

ISBN13: 9780609802649

Hand-Me-Down Dreams: How Families Influence Our Career Paths and How We Can Reclaim Them

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We all know that hand-me-downs are often comfortable and easy to put on, but we are rarely happy in something--a jacket or a job--that we didn't choose. If you feel trapped or disappointed in your current career or job, or if you let your family's wishes, rather than your own natural talents, interests, and passions, guide your ultimate career choice, you are living someone else's dream. These "hand-me-down dreams" influence every aspect of our lives,...

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Rated 4 stars
Good book

I found the concepts of hand-me-down dreams an important one as I looked at issues with my family of origin. However, I suspect that a person might need to work with a counselor to really benefit from the book's ideas--the exercises did not seem enough to me.

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The Unfinished Business in your Career

Jacobsen, a psychotherapist and career counselor, has written an extensive examination of family dynamics and how one generation affects another in terms of career limits/expectations/success/failure. It's a painful topic, and one which affects us all. Through her questions and exercises, the reader can take a fresh look at the unfulfilled quests of one's parents and grandparents, because these desires are as much your inheritance...

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Family Dynamics and Personal Development Helpfully Explored

I found this book to be very helpful in working through family dreams in a sense not directly related to career but having to do more with a hand me down dream about a way of life. Growing up in Brooklyn, in a large family always financially challenged, we moved from apartment to apartment under a shared dream that we would someday have the "house in the country." My father, myself and other siblings were also involved...

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