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and what kind of work you are looking for， and what method<br > of job-hunting you use.<br > In any event， if you lose your job in 1988 you will find that<br > it does not matter whether you are the only one in your<br > neighborhood that is out of a job， or everyone is. It s still<br > "the pits." You still feel the loneliness of the experience. The<br > loss of your job is like a death in the family: it colors the<br > whole way you look at the world. Particularly if it was a sudden<br > loss. You can t understand how the rest of the world can go<br > on with its business as usual， when you are in such deep<br > mournifig--and indignation--over what has happened to you.<br > I remember well how I felt the last time I was fired. Intellec-<br > tually you know that the majority of the world doesn t even<br > know you exist; but emotionally， we are all back in the Dark<br >Ages. When we are in pain， we can t understand why the whole<br >world doesn t stop spinning--out of sympathy for our plight.<br > If you are job-hunting or contemplating a career-change，<br >this book is designed to give you practical hope. Not merely a<br >pep-talk to bolster you up， but some practical steps. And so，<br >tiffs book has both some quick steps you can take--learned<br >from studying successful job-hunters--and also a more sys-<br >tematic approach to the job-hunt: through dealing with the<br >crucial questions of WHAT， WHERE and HOW.<br > As many of you know， this book is revised each year--<br >substantially. So， for those who have seen an earlier edition--<br >even last year s edition--I would like to say what is new this<br >year. The most obvious thing is that there is a new Appendix C<br >this year on the subject of "The Brain and Job-Hunting，" which<br >may be of interest to many of you， and especially to those of<br >you who feel you are handicapped. There is also a new<br >Appendix D on "Religion and Job-Hunting: How to Find<br >Your Mission in Life，" for those of you who believe in God<br >and want to know how to relate this faith to your job-hunt.<br > I am regularly using the Appendices for articles of special<br >interest to some of my readers， though I do have to change<br >them year by year for new articles. Thus， "Women and the<br >World of Work" appeared only in the 1986 edition， while two<br >articles I am presently working on， "Personal Computers and<br >Job-Hunting" and ~]ob-Hunting and the Handicapped，" will<br >appear in next year s edition. By revolving the Appendices<br >year by year in this way， I achieve three purposes: I keep my<br >