Love the Work You're with: Find the Job You Always Wanted Without Leaving the One You Have

Life at the human resources salt mines has been transformed since reading Richard Whiteley's excellent motivational guide. He found new zest and enthusiasm in his career and so did I and his personal testimony is genuinely moving. "Watching the contestants actually getting excited being on my show used to give me a kick, but it soon palled. Slopping up this pre-primetime pap day-in-day-out was quite frankly doing my nut in and, though it may not have seemed that way, my ability to engage in on-screen anodyne banter was affected. I was in a rut. Career worries spilled out into my private life, and I wince when I think of all the drunken I-could-have-been-a-contender speeches I made to all those anonymous barflies. I'll be honest with you - I wanted Call My Bluff, and yes, I did once say that I wanted Robertson whacked." But Whiteley pulled himself back and the rest is history.

The dot-gone economy has taught millions that changing jobs is not the solution to success in work or life. Love The Work Your're With provides a road-map and tools to find personal and professional fulfillment at work. Each of the six steps in Whiteley's approach provide specific assessments, tools, and strategies to increase your level of engagement and energy at work. This book is highly readable, entertaining, inspiring, and filled with great examples. It is a must have self-help tool-kit for workers in today's complex work world. As a professional coach, I find this book to be essential for both my clients and their managers. If you've ever struggled with committment at work, read this book!

A few months ago I would sit at my desk and look with trepidation at the list of tasks and projects waiting for my attention. It sounds cliche, but I was another "burned out" lawyer. Then I read "Love the Work You're With." Many thanks to Whiteley for this informative and inspirational book. The book begins with stories from Whiteley's interviews with various people who love their work; be it directing traffic or selling furniture. Through various exercises and antedotes, Whiteley provides you with the means to find excitement about the way you earn a living. "Love the Work You're With" reminded me that most of us have control over where we work, what we do and how we feel about our jobs. By reading this book, I realized that knowing I am of service provides me with job satisfaction. I now get excited about my work when I acknowledge that I get to help individuals and businesses solve their problems. I recommend this book to anyone in any profession whose job is less than inspirational.

In Love the Work You're With, Richard Whiteley invites you to take a fresh look at your job situation. His purpose is not to persuade you to stay with a job you've outgrown or does not serve your values and ambitions. Rather, the exercises in the book guide you through the process of assessing whether the difficulties you experience with your work are due to your own point of view or to problems inherent in the job. This is a book about recognizing the potential in your current work situation for personal growth. I highly recommend this book if you are seeking a deeper understanding of the place of work in your life.

With our slowing economy, this book could not have come out at a better time. People who have been thinking about changing jobs, but who now can't because there is no place to go, will find very sage advice in Love the Work You're With. As he has in his other books, Mr. Whiteley once again demonstrates his unique wisdom and ability to offer practical, accessible advice. This time his focus is on how to adjust one's personal paradigms to find new satisfaction in one's current position, rather than running off to chase new ones. Special features of the book are the worksheets and exercises contained in very chapter which are easy to use and not time consuming, but are profound in terms of the valuable life insights they generate. I've been a consultant myself for 30 years and have been happy doing what I do. Yet I received a new boost of energy and healthy new perspectives from Mr. Whiteley's book. I can think of many colleagues, friends and family I will give this book to.