The Career Workbook

Realizing you may be self-sabotaging your career, almost "deliberately failing"
"We should start to get suspicious when we catch ourselves pulling off poor performances around people we need to impress, or not going for opportunities that would be perfectly well within our grasp."

On family scripts
"At the most benign level, our family work scripts are the result of what our families understand of the working world. Every family has a range of occupations that it grasps - because someone has practised them and, in the process, humanised them and brought them within the imaginative range of other family members."