“The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World” by Bruce Feiler

Book Review

“The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World”

By Bruce Feiler

No longer feeling the joy in your job? Questioning what are doing with your work life? Feeling stuck but scared to make a big change?

You may be on the cusp of a Workquake.

In his book on work transitions, The Search, Bruce Feiler describes workquakes as times of change and reassessment in your work life that shape what you decide to do next. The Search invites readers to use these times to reconsider what they need to create meaningful work lives.

Using his signature style of illustrating his ideas with stories from real people’s working lives, he challenges readers to question all the old assumptions about work.

The linear career path? It’s dead.

Success? It might not be making as much money as you can.

Your work story? It’s not your parents’ story.

He even brings in career development history and theory, which warms my vocational psychologist’s heart.

If you want the quick, easy plan for work transitions, this is not for you. But if you are motivated by others’ stories, ready to do a deep dive into your past and future, and open to doing the exciting but hard work of rewriting your story, The Search, can be your partner on that journey.

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