From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... job.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
So Step Six -- "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" --
is A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job.
2.
... job.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
3.
... job.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
4.
... job?
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
5.
... job.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
6.
... job."
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
7.
... job.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
8.
... job.
BB p.138,
To Employers
9.
... job.
BB p.146,
To Employers
If he is, and is still trying to recover, he will tell you about it even if it means the loss of his job.
10.
... job.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
11.
... job at
a hospital in New York.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
12.
... job at
the office -- security; self esteem ...
BB p.65,
How It Works
13.
... job, can
talk to a man with ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
An alcoholic who has recovered, but holds a relatively unimportant job, can talk to a man with a better position.
14.
... job categories
of commercial organizations.
12&12 p.169,
Tradition Eight (Note)
(*) The work of present-day staff members has no counterpart among the
job categories of commercial organizations.
15.
... job destroy
my confidence and fill me ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Did fear and inferiority about my fitness for my job destroy my confidence
and fill me with conflict?
16.
... job for
me.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
17.
... job from
which we recoil.
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
We will want to be rid of some of these defects,
but in some instances this will appear to be an impossible job from which
we recoil.
18.
... job if
it were known.
BB p.78,
Into Action
We have already admitted this in confidence to another person, but we are sure we
would be imprisoned or lose our job if it were known.
19.
... job in
some other way, or prefers ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he thinks he can do the job in some other way, or prefers some other spiritual approach, encourage him
to follow his own conscience.
20.
... job is
to sidestep the traps.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
21.
... job like
this one?
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
Straightway he appeared at New York's A.A. headquarters, asking,
"Is there anything in our tradition that suggests
I shouldn't take a job like this one?
22.
... job myself.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
23.
... job, no
matter how unpromising.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
24.
... job now
is to be at the ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to
others, so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful.
25.
... job of
living than he has.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
26.
... job, or
give him a little financial ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
27.
... Job or
no job -- wife or no ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job
-- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.
28.
... job she
was doing and how she ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary
answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got
sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently
diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about the job
she was doing and how she was overpaid, then such a person could surely not be called a professional
A.A.
29.
... job still
looked like a mere means ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for
financial independence looked more important than a right dependence upon God, we were still the victims of unreasonable fears.
30.
... job suffers,
we fire him.
BB p.148,
To Employers
31.
... job, taking
a trip, not taking a ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at
home, never having it in the
house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties,
switching from scotch
to brandy, drinking only
natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a
solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational
books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums --
we could increase the list
ad infinitum.
32.
... job; then
lost it as the result ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
33.
... job thoroughly,
a wonderful light falls upon ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Once we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful light falls upon this foggy scene.
34.
... job to
be the task of breaking ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
I now conceive the psychiatrist's job to be
the task of breaking down the patient's inner resistance so that
which is inside him will flower, as under the activity of the A.A. program."
35.
... job was
not to do Twelfth Step ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
36.
... job well
done.
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
Practically every A.A. member declares that no satisfaction has been deeper and no joy greater than in a Twelfth Step job well done.
37.
... job which
took him out of town.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
38.
... job --
wife or no wife -- we simply ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job
-- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.
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