|
|
Career Resources November 2025 |
|
|
All the Cool Girls Get Fired: How to Let Go of Being Let Go and Come Back on Top
by Laura Brown
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* Turn losing your job into an epic comeback with this unfiltered, comprehensive GPS guide to rebuilding your career on your terms. So, you got fired, laid off, restructured, canned. Welcome to the club, baby In today's seismically changing job market, getting fired doesn't automatically mean you failed; it's a rite of passage. With their decades of experience in high-stakes leadership roles, Laura Brown and Kristina O'Neill know firsthand the challenges--and thrilling opportunities--that come with losing a job, no matter where you are in your career. They've been through the shock, grief, anger, and confusion, and they're here to help you navigate the experience. All the Cool Girls Get Fired is both a roadmap and a mindset shift--a pragmatic, empowering and humorous way to make lemonade from lemons. With candor, humor, actionable advice, and exclusive I've been there, interviews from inspirational women, All the Cool Girls Get Fired challenges outdated corner office perceptions of career success. From coping mechanisms and self-care practices to networking strategies and reinvention techniques, the book is a comprehensive GPS to navigate the path of career recovery and bounce back with more professional mojo than ever.
|
|
|
|
The Ambition Trap: How to Stop Chasing and Start Living
by Amina AlTai
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ADAM GRANT'S NEXT BIG IDEA BOOK CLUB PICK The anti-hustle guide to getting what you really want AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Most of us think ambition means doing everything in our power to get what we want. But this approach costs us our health and wellbeing, and ultimately upholds oppressive systems. In The Ambition Trap, leadership coach Amina AlTai shows you how to break the cycle of overwork once and for all--and finally create the greatest, most joy-filled work of your life. The thing is, what most of us really want isn't money or accolades, but acceptance, security, and belonging. When we use external metrics to fulfill these internal wounds and desires nothing ends up being enough, so we work harder and longer in a never-ending cycle--and therein lies the ambition trap. It turns out, we get to have more of what we want when we anchor our ambition to our purpose and not our pain. Drawing on her work with Fortune 500 leaders, Olympic gold medalists, start-up founders, and former girlbosses, AlTai guides you through the process of reconciling your ambition, starting with healing the core wounds and insecurities currently driving you. Along the way, she introduces actionable strategies for aligning your work with your deepest why, leaning into your most natural gifts, nourishing yourself in the long-term pursuit of your goals, setting a sustainable pace, and allowing contentment to guide the way. It turns out, ambition isn't a dirty word but an invitation to design your life with even greater purpose, meaning, and joy.
|
|
|
|
Solopreneur Business for Dummies
by Joe Rando
Create and run your one-person business with pro advice and strategic tools Solopreneur Business For Dummies offers advice and tools to create, grow, and manage your business when you're going it alone. Unlike entrepreneurs, solopreneurs typically create their businesses to serve their lives--instead of trying to scale as much as possible. To thrive in this lifestyle, you'll need to understand the basics of business operations, financial management, sales, and marketing. You'll also need to learn how to do all these things without burning yourself out. This book has you covered in all those areas. You'll also learn how to create a support network that offers guidance, emotional support, and business opportunities. Set your business up for success with this no-nonsense Dummies guide. Build a successful business from the ground up--without employees Avoid the common mistakes that derail many new businesses Develop a viable business idea that aligns with your personal goals and your desired lifestyle Learn the best practices from the big guys, tailored for a one-person business Discover tech tools that can make it easier to run your business Learn from the stories of successful solopreneurs across industries Solopreneur Business For Dummies is a practical and easy-to-understand resource that makes it easy to start your own solo venture. Get the tools and insights you need to navigate the challenging yet rewarding path.
|
|
In Focus: What is it like to be a... ? Career Memoirs Part 2 |
|
|
|
When it all burns : fighting fire in a transformed world
by Jordan Thomas
"An anthropologist and hotshot firefighter's gripping firsthand account of a record-setting fire season. Eighteen of California's largest wildfires on record have burned in the past two decades. Scientists recently invented the term "megafire" to describe wildfires that behave in ways that would have been impossible just a generation ago, burning through winter, exploding in the night, and devastating landscapes historically impervious to incendiary destruction. Wildland firefighters must navigate these new scales of destruction in real time. In When It All Burns, Jordan Thomas recounts a single, brutal six-month fire season with the Los Padres Hotshots-the special forces of America's firefighters. Being a hotshot is among the most difficult jobs on Earth. Their training is as grueling as any Navy SEAL's, and the social induction is even tougher. As Thomas viscerally renders his crew's attempts to battle flames that are often too destructive to contain, he uncovers the hidden cultural history of megafires. He investigates how a social system that prioritizes profit over people and nature has turned humanity's symbiotic relationship with wildfire into a war-and what can be done to change it back. Thomas weaves ecology and the history of indigenous oppression, federal forestry, and the growth of the fire industrial complex into an expansive, riveting narrative of a new phase in the climate crisis. Above all, he immerses readers in a story of friendship and community in the most perilous of circumstances, told with humor, humility, and affection"
|
|
|
|
Cellar rat : my life in the restaurant underbelly
by Hannah Selinger
A vivid memoir of a sommelier's rise and fall in the restaurant industry, exploring the glamour, exploitation and emotional toll behind fine dining, celebrity encounters and the decision to leave a career that no longer fulfills. 17,500 first printing.
|
|
|
|
The Royal Butler: My Remarkable Life in Royal Service
by Grant Harrold
An unforgettable portrait of the royal household, told by the former butler to King Charles III. Grant Harrold had been obsessed with the royaly family since childhood. In this unforgettable memoir, we journey along with Grant as he finds his way to the heart of the royal household. The unique relationship between the monarch and their staff has always been shrouded in mystery but The Royal Butler artfully reveals never before heard stories about his time in royal service. Today, Grant Harrold is a leading expert on etiquette, and in The Royal Butler he draws on his time as a member of the royal household of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla. Based at their country Highgrove House in the Cotswolds, his duties included being butler for the king and queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Sussex. On occasions, Grant also had the honour to Butler for the Late Queen Elizabeth II and her Husband The Late Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. The Royal Butler brings to life the extraordinary world of the Windsors as never before.
|
|
|
|
The Uncool: A Memoir
by Cameron Crowe
The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe--one of America's most iconic journalists and filmmakers--revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation, in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith's Just Kids with a dash of Moss Hart's Act One. The Uncool is a ... dispatch from a lost world, the real-life events that became Almost Famous, and a coming-of-age journey filled with characters you won't soon forget--
|
|
|
If you are having trouble unsubscribing to this newsletter, please contact the Dayton Metro Library at
937.463.2665- 215 E. Third Street Dayton, OH 45402
|
|
|