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The Pathfinder 3.0 : How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success
by Nicholas Lore
Whether you are a seasoned professional in search of a career change or just starting out, The Pathfinder can guide you toward more engaging, fulfilling work. Based on breakthrough techniques developed by the author’s award-winning career coaching organization, Rockport Institute, The Pathfinder has already helped hundreds of thousands of people custom design a career that fits their interests and lifestyle perfectly. This completely revised and updated new edition offers more than fifty self-tests, diagnostic tools, and the widely lauded Rockport Career Design Method to help you choose an entirely new career, an entrepreneurial path, or a better-fitting job in your current field.
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Today Was Fun : A Book About Work Seriously
by Bree Groff
Perfect for fans of Brené Brown and Cal Newport, Today Was Fun challenges the notion that professionalism means being buttoned up and overworked and provides seven key rules for better days at work and in life.
Bree Groff weaves together personal anecdotes, research, humor, and practical wisdom, outlining a compelling vision of modern workplaces that make people feel human and alive. Groff provides concrete strategies for implementation, from Do Nothing Days for inducing brilliant work to building a Portfolio Life that ensures work remains only one of many fulfilling things we do.
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Becoming you : the proven method for crafting your authentic life and career
by Suzy Welch
"Becoming You guides readers through the process of excavating their truest values, identifying their outstanding aptitudes, and finally, pinpointing their economically viable interests, that is, the kind of work that calls them emotionally and intellectually, and also makes sense financially. Ultimately, Becoming You, at turns warm, witty, pragmatic, and filled with tough-love, is your guide to discovering the life you were meant to live"
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One day I'll work for myself : the dream and delusion that conquered America
by Benjamin C. Waterhouse
What makes the dream of self-employment so alluring, so pervasive in today’s world? Benjamin C. Waterhouse offers a provocative argument: the modern cult of the hustle is a direct consequence of economic failures―bad jobs, stagnant wages, and inequality―since the 1970s. With original research, Waterhouse traces a new narrative history of business in America, populated with vivid characters―from the activists, academics, and work-from-home gurus who hailed business ownership as our economic salvation to the upstarts who took the plunge. We meet, among others, a consultant who quits his job and launches a wildly popular beer company, a department store saleswoman who founds a plus-size bra business on the Internet, and an Indian immigrant in Texas who flees the corporate world to open a motel. Some flourish; some squeak by. Some fail.
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Make Your Own Rules : Stories and Hard-Earned Advice from a Creator in the Digital Age
by Andrew Huang
How does a musician with acute hearing loss, a refusal to perform live, and no industry connections carve a path to millions of followers and lucrative royalty checks? In Make Your Own Rules, Andrew Huang shares stories from his two decades as a music industry misfit and offers advice on both the artistic and business sides of working as a creator in our digital era.
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Freelance your way to freedom : how to free yourself from the corporate world and build the life of your dreams
by Alexandra Fasulo
"Freelance Your Way to Freedom is the gig economy Bible that every person needs to start a side hustle with serious profitable potential today. This book will provide actionable advice, real-world scenarios, and personal tips that have enabled Alex to take her freelancing profile from $36,000/year in 2015, to a 7-figure empire in 2021. With unique insights that come from an individual who had virtually no preparation for working on her own, navigating the gig economy, or managing money, Freelance Your Way to Freedom covers those critical moments in business when decisions need to be made quickly and without warning. By leveraging Alex's personal story, filled with relatable struggles, mindset challenges, difficulties in business as a woman, this book is packed with relatable anecdotes, practical tips, and hands-on examples that will help readers put down the book, open their laptop, and make the gig economy work for them. As a digital nomad, social media influencer, and photographer herself, Alex will include photos from her perspective as a gig economy worker throughout the journey. Freelance Your Way to Freedom will unapologetically break down both the good and the bad of this new, decentralized market- place that just can?t seem to be tamed. But to people like Alex, the wildness of the gig economy is what makes the adventure that much more fun"
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