What Color is Your Parachute? for Teens: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future

Carol Christen, Richard Nelson Bolles

Ten Speed Press, 2010 - Business & Economics - 178 pages

In today's über-competitive climate, you can't just wing it when you graduate and count on finding a great job (or a great job finding you). It pays to figure out your interests early, so you can decide what additional schooling--and tuition debt--makes sense for your chosen field. In What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens, career authorities Carol Christen and Richard N. Bolles not only help you plan for these decisions, but also help you define the unique passions that will lead you to your dream job. With new chapters on social media and sustainable jobs--along with all-new profiles of twentysomethings who've found work in solar energy, magazine writing, and more--this new edition has all the nitty-gritty details you need to get started now. Most importantly, it's packed with the big-picture advice that will set you up to land the job that's perfect for who you are--and who you want to be.

About the author

Richard Nelson Bolles was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 19, 1927. During World War II, he served in the Navy. He studied chemical engineering for two years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then transferred to Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in physics. After graduation, he decided to become an Episcopal minister. He received a master's degree in New Testament studies from General Theological Seminary in New York and was ordained in 1953. He had been a clergyman for 18 years when a combination of budget problems and philosophical differences with superiors led to the elimination of his job and his dismissal in 1968 as a pastor at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. After six months of searching, he got a job with United Ministries in Higher Education, an interdenominational church organization that recruited and supported college chaplains across the country. However, when the college chaplains were increasingly being laid off, he decided to help the chaplains find new careers. He was an ordained Episcopal minister until 2004, when he left the ministry. In 1970, he self-published What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers as a photocopied how-to booklet for unemployed ministers. In 1972, he recast it to appeal to a wider audience and found an independent publisher willing to print small batches so that it could be frequently updated. His other books included How to Find Your Mission in Life and The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them. He died on March 31, 2017 at the age of 90.

Bibliographic information

• Title: What Color is Your Parachute? for Teens: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future; What Color Is Your Parachute? for Teens: Discovering Yourself
• Authors: Carol Christen, Richard Nelson Bolles
• Contributor: Jean M. Blomquist
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 2010
• ISBN: 158008141X, 9781580081412
• Length: 178 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Careers / Job Hunting; Education / Student Life & Student Affairs; Juvenile Nonfiction / Careers; Young Adult Nonfiction / Business & Economics; Young Adult Nonfiction / Careers; Young Adult Nonfiction / School & Education