self-improvement reading recs (AKICOLJ)
Anybody got any alternatives to Stephen Covey and Roger Merrill? I've been trying to slog through First Things First, but it is really setting my teeth on edge with respect to the family roles. I'd prefer feminist-friendly alternatives that acknowledge that both sexes may have to work full-time in order to keep a roof over the family's head and beans on the table...I'm about to pick up The Artist's Way again as that jives a lot better with my particular bent, but I'd like something that addresses organizational skills and takes less than 12 weeks to run through the entire program. With Artist's Way, I always always fall down on the reading-deprivation week.
Resume progress: down to 3 pages (better-organized) from 4. Will try to compare/contrast the two versions tomorrow with colleagues who are helping me out w/ the resume review (and/or my outside counsel). Deadline to have a good version is Thursday as a branch of the United States military is looking for a good patent attorney and that deadline closes Friday. Part of me is not sure whether I could handle that job, but part of me really really likes the idea of patenting things that go BOOM for people who are out to build Serious Weaponry.
Very annoying: a recruiter calls me today about the patent agent position we have available, aka my replacement (who could very well be an H1-B visa holder). However, I made a good save as I had dealt w/ this recruiter two years ago, and he had an old copy of my resume on hand, so I offered to send him a new one. But I was still steaming mad when I came home tonight, and minastir's suggestions that I re-apply for my replacement's job were not helpful. After getting treated like that, I want to get out of there and be quit of the place. "Shake the dust of the place out of my sandals," to quote someone much wiser than me.
Resume progress: down to 3 pages (better-organized) from 4. Will try to compare/contrast the two versions tomorrow with colleagues who are helping me out w/ the resume review (and/or my outside counsel). Deadline to have a good version is Thursday as a branch of the United States military is looking for a good patent attorney and that deadline closes Friday. Part of me is not sure whether I could handle that job, but part of me really really likes the idea of patenting things that go BOOM for people who are out to build Serious Weaponry.
Very annoying: a recruiter calls me today about the patent agent position we have available, aka my replacement (who could very well be an H1-B visa holder). However, I made a good save as I had dealt w/ this recruiter two years ago, and he had an old copy of my resume on hand, so I offered to send him a new one. But I was still steaming mad when I came home tonight, and minastir's suggestions that I re-apply for my replacement's job were not helpful. After getting treated like that, I want to get out of there and be quit of the place. "Shake the dust of the place out of my sandals," to quote someone much wiser than me.