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| Women Leaving the Workplace |
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Women Leaving the Workplace is a great book to help you make the decision of whether to work or stay at home. This book offers many options and tips to help you make your decision. This is one of my all-time favorite books. And it was written by one of my favorite authors, the late Larry Burkett. This book will help you make the transition from work to home. Women Leaving the Workplace will also help you sort through the various obstacles you may face along the way.
Whether you plan to continue to work, work from home, or be a stay at home mom; this book is for you! It helped me make career decisions 11 years ago, and I am still recommending it today.
I had an awesome job working for the Rouse Company in Mall Management for two of their malls. But it was a very demanding full time job. I just did not want to leave my children that long, once I had them. I wanted to quit work all together, but my husband had a different opinion. So as I prayed and read this book, I decided that a part time cleaning business was the way to go. That's what worked for us, you will have to read the book and see what the Lord has for you and your family. Larry offers lots of practical tips to help make the transition as smooth as possible. He discusses four personality types and includes personality tests in the Appendix for both spouses.
A must read, if you are expecting, or if you have considered whether or not you want to leave the workforce. Larry has lots of other great books for the rest of you!
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| June 17, 2007 |
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| I have a couple of people to recommend this book to now, thanks for the review Sue! btw, didn't realize LB had passed. ~mike |
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| June 17, 2007 |
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| Voice in DC just shared with me that www.amazon.com has this book available at a used price of 1 cent! You just pay the shipping! That's quite a bargin. He also said that this book is out of print. So get it while you can! If you click on the picture of the book on this page, it will take you directly to the page where this book is sold. |
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| June 17, 2007 |
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| Sue is correct. Amazon is linked into several warehouses around the country and they only list a handful of new ones available. Larry Burkett books are excellent, timeless guide books. While some have dated examples in them now, they are still good solid Biblical reference books. We use to have a whole section of his books in our store when he was alive because he was publishing them often. Always ask for a workbook when you buy one of the books. Some had great workbooks that gave you templates to use for some of the guidance he offers in the books. I do not know if there was one for this specific book. |
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| June 17, 2007 |
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| the home is NOT a workplace? |
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| June 18, 2007 |
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| Uh...good bog Mike. My point is that the first and primary career for a woman, with children, is the home, period. At least that should be clear! LOL. |
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| June 19, 2007 |
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Recon77,
One thing to remember is that this book was published in 1995. So things have changed since then. I think the title would be different if it were published today, but the content is still relevant for today. |
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| June 20, 2007 |
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| I do not need to read the book... God has led me to stay home. Thank you Lord. |
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| June 22, 2007 |
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Sue, What has changed since 1995? Just curious. |
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| June 22, 2007 |
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Recon,
It is just my opinion, and I have no proof whatsoever to back it up, but I do feel that mankind in general gets much more offended over the use of certain words these days. People seem much more sensitive. I think 9/11 played a huge role in this. I think 9/11 changed the way American's think in many ways. |
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| July 01, 2007 |
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| This seems like an interesting book. I too have struggled with the decision to stay home. I first considered it when I was pregnant with my second child. I was working full time as a manager which was a stressful enough position but to top it off, it was in retail so I had to work alot of nights and weekends. Plus I was going to school on the days that I got out early. I hardly saw my family and when I did they were getting ready for bed. I finally realized what I was doing when my 5 year old daughter asked me with tears in her eyes why I had to go again? She said she missed me and begged me to stay home with her. I felt so horrible that I did stay home from work that day. Then once I had my second child I found it hard to afford day care for 2 kids. So I started working part time as a freelance makeup artist. I worked 2 - 3 days a week but that was not always guaranteed. I am still doing that as well as going to school at nights and taking online classes. I like this better because I can spend the entire day with my kids until 6pm when my husband stays with them while I go to class. The only issue that we run into at times is when I don't get enough hours at work that month and we end up late sometimes with bills. But that is an issue that I got tired of fightening myself so I decided to give it to the Lord and let Him guide me through it. Thanks for the information. =) |
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