Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 317 g
How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 317 g
ISBN: 978-0-451-49663-8
Verlag: The Crown Publishing Group
To the outside observer, it seems like they've won the career lottery-that by some stroke of luck or circumstance they've found the one thing they love so much that it doesn't even feel like work-and they're getting paid well to do it.
In reality, their good fortune has nothing to do with chance. There's a method for finding your perfect job, and Chris Guillebeau, the bestselling author of The $100 Startup, has created a practical guide for how to do it-whether within a traditional company or business, or by striking out on your own.
Finding the work you were "born to do" isn't just about discovering your passion. Doing what brings you joy is great, but if you aren't earning a living, it's a hobby, not a career. And those who jump out of bed excited to go to work every morning don't just have jobs that turn their passions into paychecks. They have jobs where they also can lose themselves for hours in the flow of meaningful work.
This intersection of joy, money, and flow is what Guillebeau will help you find in this book. Through inspiring stories of those who have successfully landed their dream career, as well as actionable tools, exercises, and thought experiments, he'll guide you through today's vast menu of career options to discover the work perfectly suited to your unique interests, skills, and experiences.
You'll learn how to:
- Hack the job of your dreams within a traditional organization by making it work for you
- Find not only your ideal work but also your ideal working conditions
- Create plans that will allow you to take smarter career risks and "beat the house" every time
- Start a profitable "side hustle" and earn extra cash on top of your primary stream of income
- Escape the prison of working for someone else and build a mini-empire as an entrepreneur
- Become a rock star at any creative endeavor by creating a loyal base of fans and followers
Whichever path you choose, this book will show you how to find that one job or career that feels so right, it's like you were born to do it.
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Flip the Script
Objective: Choose the Winning Ticket to Your Career Lottery
There's more than one possible path to career success, but you want to find the best one-the thing you were born to do. You want to win the career lottery and discover a job or vocation that doesn't feel like work. Achieving this goal will require changes in mindset, strategy, and action.
If you won the lottery tomorrow, how would your life be different?
Some people might dash straight out to the luxury car lot, and then drive home in a shiny new toy before booking a Caribbean vacation.
Others might pay off their debt and invest the rest for a comfortable future.
Still others might shrug and give the money to charity.
When it comes to their jobs and careers, different members of our group of hypothetical lottery winners would probably choose different responses. Some people would quit immediately, walking out with no notice. Others would use the experience to reflect on what they really wanted to do, and then proceed with the security of having all the money they needed to take the risks to pursue the thing they always dreamed of-whether it's opening a surf shop in Bora Bora, founding a nonprofit in sub-Saharan Africa, or building a tech startup.
Some people, perhaps the truly lucky ones, would look at their lottery winnings and say, "You know, this money's great, but I like what I'm doing enough to stay. Maybe I'll take that vacation on the beach, and maybe I'll buy that car I've always wanted, but then I'll drive it back to my office after a week of sunbathing."
In case you're wondering, none of these answers is the single "right" one. When you win the lottery, it's your money to do with as you please. And even if you love your job, winning the lottery would probably encourage you to reevaluate. Do you love your job so much that you'd do it if you didn't need the money?
Work isn't everything in life, but we spend a great deal of our lives at work. Some people, it seems, really do have it all. These people take to their working roles as if it's the absolute best possible fit for them-it's as though they were born to fulfill a certain role. If you've ever worked on something you took great pleasure in, yet you also got paid for it, you know what this is about. And if you haven't experienced this career bliss yourself, you may have observed it in others.
Ever come across a childhood friend that you'd lost track of for many years? Maybe he pops up on a social network, or maybe you run into her at the coffee shop. Wherever it is, you hear what that person is doing, 10 or 20 or more years later, and you realize it makes perfect sense. Of course she became a lawyer-she was always detail-oriented and inquisitive. Of course he went into teaching-he was always patient and methodological.
These are the winners of the career lottery; they are people who found what they were meant to do. They're happier because of it, and they are likely more successful, too.
Whatever it was, those people have essentially picked up a winning lottery ticket to the world of work. That's the goal for all of us: to find work that feels like play, yet also has meaning and a good paycheck attached to it.
Winning a gazillion dollars in the lottery would be nice, but finding what you were meant to do is far more important. This book will help you win a different kind of lottery-not the kind where someone descends on your doorstep with a oversized check, ready to send you straight to that car dealership or Prada store.
It's better.
"What Do You Do for a Living?"
It's the question you've probably heard a thousand times, whether at parties, networking events, your kid's soccer game, or any other number of places. Depending on what's happening in your life at the moment, the question may fill you with excitement, dread, or something in between.
The question,
