What Color Is Your Parachute? Part 31

Buddensieg, Marc Niemeyerstra.s.se 17a 30449 Hannover Phone: 49 0 163 624 2639 Fax: 49 0 12120 277 627 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.lwp-hannover.de/wir1 Leitner, Madeleine, Dipl. Psych.

Ohmstra.s.se 8 80802 Munchen Phone: 089 33079444 Fax: 089 33079445 E-mail: [email protected] www.Karriere-Management.de (Madeleine is one of the best Parachute counselors in Europe. She translated Parachute into German.) Webb, John Carl Meinenkampstr 83a 48165 Munster-Hiltrup Phone: +49 0 2501 92 16 96 E-mail: [email protected] www.lifeworkplanning.de (Universities offering Life/Work Planning courses designed by John, and based on Parachute, are located in Berlin, Bochum, Bremen, Freiburg, Hannover, Konstanz, Leipzig, and Potsdam. John was on staff at my international Two-Week Workshops; he is a master of the Parachute process and one of the best Parachute counselors in Europe.)

Ireland

Brian McIvor & a.s.sociates Newgrange Mall, Unit 4B Slane, County Meath Phone: 353 41 988 4035 E-mail: [email protected] www.brianmcivor.com (Brian was on staff at my international Two-Week Workshop for five years.)

Israel

Mendel, Lori PO Box 148 Caesarea, Israel 38900 Phone: 972 3 524 1068 Cell: 972 54 814 4442 E-mail: [email protected] Transitions & Resources, Ltd.

Tzip.o.r.nit, 6/3 Modiin, 71808 Israel Phone: 08 926 6102 U.S. phone line in Israel until 4 p.m. EST: 516-216-4457 Fax: 08 926 6103 Contact: Judy Feierstein, CEO E-mail: [email protected] www.maavarim.biz

The Netherlands

Crystal-Barkley Corp.

Service in The Netherlands Phone: 800-333-9003 E-mail: [email protected] www.careerlife.com Pluym Career Consultants Career Executive & Expats Coaching Services Boshoekerweg 16 NL/8167 LS EPE/OENE.

Contact: Johan Veeninga, Senior Consultant E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] www.careerconsultants.nl

New Zealand

Career Lifestyle Auckland CBD Contact: Paula Stenberg www.cvstyle.co.nz *CV.CO.NZ (NZ) Ltd.

373 Masters Rd.

Auckland 2682 Toll-Free: 0800 282 669 Phone: 09 235 8484 Contact: Tom O'Neil E-mail: [email protected] www.cv.co.nz Strategic Career Services PO Box 27072 Hamilton 3257 Phone: 64 7 849 0909 Contact: Tui Needham E-mail: [email protected] www.tuineedham.co.nz

Poland

JC Coaching Justyna Ciecwierz Tarniny 5a 05-515 Nowa Iwiczna Cell: 48 600 327 163 Contact: Justyna Ciecwierz, ACCC, Career Coaching, Work/Life Planning E-mail: [email protected] www.jc-coaching.pl

Singapore

Transformation Technologies 122 Thomson Green 574986 Singapore Phone: 65 98197858 Contact: Anthony Tan, Director E-mail: [email protected]

South Africa

Andrew Bramley Career Consultants 12 Ridge Way PO Box 1311 Proteaville, Durbanville 7550 Phone: 27 0 21 9755573 Fax: 27 0 88 0 21 9755573 Contact: Andrew Bramley E-mail: [email protected] www.andrewbramley.co.za

South Korea

Byung Ju Cho, PhD Professor Emeritus of Business and Career, Emeritus Ajou University Suwon Phone: 82 31 219 2709 Fax: 82 2 594 6236 Cell: 82 10 9084 6236 E-mail: [email protected] (Byung Ju Cho is the translator of the 2013 Korean version of Parachute.)

Spain

a.n.a.lisi-Nic Via Augusta, 120 Princ.i.p.al 1 08006 Barcelona Phone: 34 932119503 Fax: 34 932172128 Contact: Jose Arno E-mail: [email protected]

Switzerland

Baumgartner, Peter Hummelwaldstra.s.se 18a 8645 Rapperswil-Jona Phone: +41 0 55 534 14 47 E-mail: [email protected] KLB LifeDesigning Alpenblickstra.s.se 33 8645 Jona-Kempraten Phone: +41 0 55 211 09 77 Fax: +41 0 55 211 09 79 Contact: Peter Kessler, LifeDesigning Coach E-mail: [email protected] www.LifeDesigning.ch Porot & Partenaire Rue de la Terra.s.siere 8 1207 Geneve-Suisse Phone: +41 0 22 700 82 10 Fax: +41 0 22 700 82 14 Contact: Daniel Porot, Founder E-mail: [email protected] www.porot.com (Daniel is the premiere career expert in Europe; for the twenty years that I did two-week workshops each August, Daniel was always co-leader with me each summer.) Sauser, Hans-U.

Beratung und Ausbildung Im Bungert 2 5430 Wettingen Phone: 056 426 64 09 E-mail: [email protected] Vollenweider, Peter A.

Career and Transition Coaching, Work/Life Planning, Consulting Kaepfnerweg 20 8810 Horgen/Zurich Phone: +41 0 44 715 15 63 Cell: +41 0 78 626 11 58 Contact: Dr. Peter A. Vollenweider E-mail: [email protected]

United Kingdom

Can Do It Now Contact: Janie Wilson UK: London, Surrey, and Suss.e.x; France: Languedoc Phone: +44 (0)7968 027344 E-mail: [email protected] or Contact: Alix Nadelman London, Cambridge, and East Counties Phone: +44 (0)7977 930223 E-mail: [email protected] www.candoitnow.co.uk www.lepuget.com Career Dovetail 4 E. Hill Court Oxted, Surrey RH8 9AD and Hub Working Centre 5 Wormwood St.

London EC2M 1RW Contact: Duncan Bolam, Dip. CG, Director, Career Coach, and Founder E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] www.careerdovetail.co.uk Crystal-Barkley Corp.

Service in the United Kingdom Phone: 800-333-9003 E-mail: [email protected] www.careerlife.com Hawkins, Dr. Peter Mt. Pleasant Liverpool, L3 5TF Phone: 0044 0 151 709-1760 Fax: 0044 0 151 709-1576 E-mail: [email protected] John Lees a.s.sociates 37 Tatton St.

Knutsford, Ches.h.i.+re WA16 6AE Phone: 01565 631625 Contact: John Lees E-mail: [email protected] www.johnleescareers.com Sherridan Hughes Career Management Expert 110 Pretoria Rd.

London SW16 6RN Phone: 020 8769 5737 E-mail: www.sherridan-hughes.co.uk

The Final Word:

Notes from the Author for This Edition May 6, 2013

Thoughts from the Fisherman

First of all, this isn't really a book. The way I think about it, it's more of a yearly journal. A journal rewritten every year for the past forty-two years.

I rethink the whole book, I rewrite, and drastically change it, every single year-taking into careful consideration an author's dilemma.

An author's dilemma is easily stated: How much is too much information? How much is too little? I think there is too much information floating around out there-particularly on the Internet-and if I tried to include it all, this book would turn into a ten-volume encyclopedia. So it is my responsibility to sift it down, and talk only about the most essential truths. But (a big "but") I must first gather as much of the information as possible here on my desk, before I sift it down to what seem to me to be the essentials.

So, year by year, I have come to think of an author's task as that of a fisherman: I must cast a wide net, haul in a large catch, but then pick out only the best fish from all those taken in the net, in order to keep this book as brief as can be.

That said, this book demands a lot of you. Mostly in the way of thinking, and rethinking, what you thought were essential truths about job-hunting, what you thought were essential truths about yourself. But the rewards for this bit of thinking are considerable. Use it, and good health!

I am a grateful man, and I will close this Final Word this year, by noting the things I'm grateful for.

First of all, I am enchanted by every moment of my life with such a wondrous woman as my wife, Marci. I am so grateful for her brains, wit, and love. Then I am grateful for the family that brought me into this world, who loved me and played with me. I had a wonderful Mother and Dad. I had great siblings: one brother (the famous reporter/martyr Don Bolles), and one sister (Ann). They're all gone now; I'm the only survivor from those generations.

I had four children; I lost one this year to a sudden ma.s.sive cerebral hemorrhage, at age fifty-eight. That was Mark. I have wept over that, a lot, and miss him greatly. He lived with me for six out of the last twelve years of his life. He was the author of our book on online job-hunting. He was a treasure.