Getting a Life: How to Find Your True Vocation

By Renee M. LaReau

How do we discover what our gifts are and where to best use them? Is it valid to make a bundle on Wall Street? Do we have to love our job all the time? What can we learn from the setbacks that always... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570754985
• ISBN13: 9781570754982
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 0.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Touching and Practical

This is an awesome book, chock full of great information and touching anecdotes. Wise beyond her years, LaReau's book is a must read for any young person muddling through career and life choices.

Practical Inspiration

A friend recommended this book for the manifold "nuggets of wisdom" it offers. "Getting a Life..." was tremendously insightful, practical and helpful as it offered concrete and realistic input on the often overwhelming concept of vocation.Through numerous personal accounts and stories, quotes and maxims the reader can easily read and relate. I was encouraged by the lens LaReau offered by which to reflect upon vocation.I thought it would be an ideal text to share with a close friend, in a book group of with a group on retreat. It is a stepping stone by which to feast on conversation and sharing of one's own path.Thanks Renee for the gift of this book!

Inspirational and Thought-Provoking

A great gift for friends in their twenties. Renee LaReau talks about important issues and how she tackled them. Through her own life stories, she describes how God and the people all around you can help you to find your true vocation. Inspirational and thought-provoking. I loved it!

Get some good perspective

I can't believe that a young woman has written such a concise, thoughtful and intelligent book about the important issues that we never take the time to think about. The pages are rife with appropriate stories taken from the author's own life that vividly illustrate each point she is trying to get across. This is far from a preachy self-help book, it is valid in one's everyday life and will give you something to think about whether you are Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist or Atheist.

Guidance for Twentysomethings

Renee LaReau writes with insight and sincerity. She offers sound advice, and supports it with personal stories. This book is a "Must Read" for twentysomethings, especially those who are looking for direction.