Suzanne SkeesBesprekingen

I won this book in a Good Reads give away. Skees interviews people from all over the world in different cultures and economic circumstances. The interviews are eye-opening. These glimpses into other lives reveal how different yet how alike we are. We learn about the passions of a dance teacher, a farmer who leads because she has access to a cell phone, a consultant who works to bring about peace in the Middle East and a entrepreneur who takes waste tomatoes and makes sauce. The interviews are intimate and the stories are inspiring. Studs Terkel would approve.

In MY JOB Gen Z: Finding Your Place in a Fast-Changing World, Suzanne Skees addresses Generation Z (born in and after 1995) and their challenges in today's job market. Faced with a recession and pandemic, conditions worsened in the past years to get a properly paid job. The book contains many short interviews with youngsters about their current job and hourly rate. Skees continues to offer advice to apply for a job, launch a business, and embark on a career in this fast-changing, uncertain world.

Practical tips on how to identify your skills, negotiate terms and salary, work remotely, are mixed with stories from Gen Z representatives. Ordinary people who share how they feel about work, what they want most from their careers, and the challenges they encounter along the way. You're not alone out there. Here's inspiration from your peers to motivate you to pursue your own dream job.

Great news! You're going to like this ghastly book a lot better than I did. It concerns itself more with the space between a navel-gazing liberal Catholic's ears and her 'spiritual quest' to escape modernity than it does with Shakers. I very quickly tired of being preached to.½

A well-written book with very descriptive language and lots of information. The author was a theologian, married with three young sons who wondered if she would want to become a Shaker if she spent an extended period of time with them. She takes the reader along on her journey of discovery.