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How'd You Score That Gig?: A Guide to the Coolest Jobs-and How to Get Them
by Alexandra Levit
from Ballantine Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Great book!
  I really enjoyed this book! It clearly broke down dozens of careers in a digestable manner, and it was fun to read. I'm a 20-something who doesn't feel entirely fulfilled in my current job and am using this book as a platform for finding new paths. There are so many interesting jobs that I had never even heard of...it was so fun to read about all the new opportunities!

• Work may be necessary, but working does not have to equal drudgery
  As the author points out, a vanishingly small number of us grew up and went to college to work in a vast, impersonal cubicle farm doing work we have no passion for and that has no more than short term utilitarian importance. We didn't set out to be faceless and anonymous worker-bees. Yet, most of us end up in such jobs. There's nothing wrong with paying the bills and funding your life and life's passions outside work. In fact, many people actually enjoy this kind of work because of what it funds at home and... more info

• A book about 60 different occupations and how to go from unemployed to being employed in one of them.
  
  This book was a fun read. I liked it in a superficial kind of way. It features 60 jobs that may be worth pursuing. The author has grouped the 60 jobs in seven of the book's 8 chapters as follows:
  1. Self-assessment
  2. The adventurer
  >>Conservationalist >>Documentary photographer >>ESL teacher
  >>Foreign Serviceofficer >>News correspondent >>Oceanographer
  >>Outdoor adventure guide >>Travel journalist
  3. The creator
  >>Actor >>Book author >>Fashion designer more info

• Life is short, get a good gig!
  "Figure out what you love to do, and you'll never go to work a day in your life." Good advice... but how do you do it? I'd say reading "How'd You Score That Gig?" is a great place to start.
  For anyone staring blankly at a hard-earned diploma and thinking "What now?" this book is a must-have. With enthusiasm, skill and tremendously thorough research, Levit takes readers on a tour of the coolest jobs for every personality type. Each chapter is full of stories from people who have already figured out a... more info

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