About Job Searching: The Last Lecture
 | from Alison Doyle
I had a difficult time starting Randy Pausch's book, The Last Lecture. I think that's because it hit very close to home. I lost my dad to pancreatic cancer (his story is on About.com's Cancer site) and I appreciate all that Randy has done to increase awareness for this particularly nasty cancer. The time he has dedicated is a gift of his very precious time, time that he doesn't have much of left.
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The Last Lecture
Once I started the book, I couldn't put it down and it wasn't really, ironically enough, because of anything related to the cause that is so near and dear to my heart. Rather, it was because of the lessons all of us should learn from it. Lessons that are especially important for anyone consider career or job options.
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