[EveningStar]

Wikipedia

[DIRTYSECRET]

I read it when young, unemployed, and unsure of my career path. Didn’t do much good.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

When I was 18, my parachute was a vodka bottle.

[jim_trent]

I read it in the late 1970’s. Didn’t think much of it.

I got more from the book about Management Secrets of Attila the Hun (several years afterward).

[AZLiberty]

I read several of the annual revisions of his book and thought it was well done. I think his advice was good. Basically, it was look inward first. Figure out what you like to do, what your strengths are, and where you want to live. Then identify jobs, companies, and locations that match. Then go after them.

Although I never requested an “informational interview”, the concept seemed sound as a way of learning about prospective jobs and companies as well as making contacts.

[linMcHlp]

1976 - Richard Bolles "brother, Donald Jr., who followed [their] father into journalism, was killed in 1976 in Phoenix when a bomb detonated under his car. Don Bolles was then working as an investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic, and the killing was widely believed to be linked to a series of exposés he had been writing about corporate and organized crime in the state. The assassination resulted in the prosecution of one person but remained largely unsolved . . ."