Married to the Job: Why We Live to Work and What We Can Do About It
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Very informative and insightful
  • Insightful and highly relevant
  • More for women than for men.....
 Married to the Job: Why We Live to Work and What We Can Do About It
Ilene Philipson
Manufacturer: Free Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0743215788

Book Description

Work is not "life," we tell ourselves. Yet too many of us stay at work till midnight and hunger for our bosses' approval. We socialize with colleagues and supervisors. We might even wear the company's logo and make its slogan our mantra. And when something goes wrong--when we're laid off, transferred, or simply chewed out--ourworlds fall apart.

We are a nation obsessed with work.

In this provocative and chilling book, clinical psychologist Ilene Philipson explores the idea of the overworked American from a startlingly new perspective. She doesn't believe, as some social commentators have suggested, that we work to buy fancy toys and to keep up with the Joneses. She's convinced that, more and more, life outside work seems colorless and unfulfilling, and that it is our jobs that generate feeling of self-worth and the sense that we're connected to something larger than ourselves. For too many of us, work has become the closest thing to family and religion we have--the core of our emotional and spiritual lives.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Very informative and insightful.......2006-04-16

Few years after the book was published, its message seems to stand out even clearer. Especially true in companies who are leading the market and/or trying to be part of the "new revolution", the work-life balance is getting harder to find and keep.

Looking at how a lot of my friends and I work and live, it certainly seems that the trend, even though few would admit it, is this: work longer hours in the hope of making the world better (but who benefits?), postponing leisure for an undetermined time, most often in a distant future, when we'll be done changing the world...

I found the book very relevant, for men and women alike. I would highly recommend it to anyone who believes "working to live" is more human than "living to work".

5 out of 5 stars Insightful and highly relevant.......2003-03-12

This work by Ilene Philipson tackles the American epidemic of emotional over-investment in the workplace. She makes the case for the growth of the problem, then follows with analysis of the causes and the implications of this pervasive cultural change from both individual and social perspectives. She illustrates the book throughout with cases from her clinical counseling practice.

I respectfully disagree with the prior reviewer who suggests that this book is for women only. I and several of my male friends have read the book and found it informative and useful in thinking through our professional situations and personal attitudes toward work.

I highly recommend this book to anyone, male or female, who is asking themselves hard questions about why they or someone they care about has been working so hard for so long and not really understanding why they're doing it.

2 out of 5 stars More for women than for men............2002-12-22

If you're a man and you'd like some perspective on why you work as much as you do----don't buy this book. The author admits that 85% of her clients are women, so perhaps the information is helpful if you are female. But for me (a man) it missed the mark as to why men work so much and what we can do to work less and feel like adequate providers (or just keep our jobs, for that matter!!).

Building Wealth in a Paycheck-to-Paycheck World
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Great title but a big DISAPPOINTMENT
  • A great book for me and the masses.
  • The real deal for working folks
 Building Wealth in a Paycheck-to-Paycheck World
Paul Petillo , and Paul Petillo
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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In the bestselling tradition of The Wealthy Barber, a nuts-and-bolts financial planning guide for the rest of us

Five years ago, a butcher from Portland, Oregon, named Paul Petillo was frustrated by the lack of financial planning insights available to working stiffs like himself. To fill this gap, he created The BlueCollar Dollar.com, a website offering straight, simple money advice for people who don't have a lot of it to spare, or to lose--in other words, most of us. The site quickly grew in popularity and now attracts more than a million visitors a year.

Petillo's first book, Building Wealth in a Paycheck-to-Paycheck World is packed with safe, proven wealth-building strategies. It covers all the major components of a balanced financial plan, including:

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In the bestselling tradition of The Wealthy Barber, a nuts-and-bolts financial planning guide for the rest of us

Five years ago, a butcher from Portland, Oregon, named Paul Petillo was frustrated by the lack of financial planning insights available to working stiffs like himself. To fill this gap, he created The BlueCollar Dollar.com, a website offering straight, simple money advice for people who dont have a lot of it to spare, or to lose--in other words, most of us. The site quickly grew in popularity and now attracts more than a million visitors a year.

Petillo's first book, Building Wealth in a Paycheck-to-Paycheck World is packed with safe, proven wealth-building strategies. It covers all the major components of a balanced financial plan, including: