Try!: A Survival Guide to Unemployment

After a 2002 downsizing from the original long distance phone company, I still do not have permanent employment or benefits.I recently picked up Kathy's book again after 2 years. It is just as helpful to me today as it was then. She has comforted me as though I met with her in person. She identifies with my feelings and circumstance - there is no "put on".Kathy's ability to write from her heart and experiences are useful in my journey for "life work".Enjoy it, I do. I can read it again and again now, remembering that someone knows exactly what it's like to be unemployed and over the age limit.(smile)

Whether you're trying to cope with unemployment or attempting to find your way into a new career Try! has a pleasing & upbeat direction for you to take.Now that you have all that "free" time what are you going to do with it? Do you want to learn how to budget that time, how to mine your talents & what about money? Would you like to learn how to put a work search day together? How to handle the emotions? How to begin to find the treasure in yourself? What the definitions of work that most fit your uniqueness?Try! is a good little book - do yourself a favor - spend the [money] - it's worth every dime! Keep it, read it & be prepared for when that pink slip flutters your way. If you already have been handed yours & are now wallowing around in the doldrums - take heart, buy a copy & set to work on the exercises & processes described therein. Your workless time will not be in vain.

This book was a wonderful guide for me in putting my life back on track when I felt hopelessly lost when my company downsized. It is motivational, easy enjoyable reading, and will expose opportunity in a different light. Worth it's weight in GOLD.

Book is very uplifting, and positive... thought provoking... a virtual guide to finding what works for you, and organizing the search for finding your true lifes work... not just your next job.

Try! is a must read, not only for the unemployed but for the unhappily employed. Ms Okulicz gives the reader the tools along with the inspiration necessary to find his/her true lifes work