What Color is your Parachute?

[Taverner]

Seriously - anyone remember this bootstrap get a job book from the late 80's/early 90's???

[Urban Prairie]

1. Who Moved My Cheese?

I thought that book was older than that by a decade or more, I seem to remember reading it in the early 80s, just looked it up, the first commercial version was published in 1972.

[WinkyDink]

2. Own it.

[yellowdogintexas]

3. dude, that book is still in print, updated every year and my husband buys a

new one about every 5 years.

I can't tell you how many of them he has given as a gift.

[Taverner]

4. Does it work for him?

For me, it was an unnecessary abstraction - better to go stealth beforehand and learn their 'language.'

[yellowdogintexas]

8. he swears by it, like you I find it distracting. To each his/her own

[applegrove]

5. I read it after it was recommended to me by a man I shared a cab with

in the mid 1980s. For the life of me I cannot remember what the job advice in that book was. But I remember who suggested I read it and where we were when he suggested it.

[petronius]

6. Is 'too small and full of holes' a color?

I do remember the book - right next to the "7 Habits of Highly Successful People" of which I (rounding up) had only one...

:)

[Lady Effingbroke]

7. Invisible. I think I'm in free fall.

yw for the earworm. :P

[Kat45]

9. The career office at my college told me to get it.

Rather than giving me any counseling or job leads, the person told me to get this book. I was pissed.
Edited to add: this was in the seventies.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. I don't have a parachute, but my nearly 100 balloons are entirely red.

[RandomThoughts]

11. I float

:shrug: