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Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People (Career Guide For...)
by Carol Eikleberry
from Ten Speed Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Enlightening
  If you are a creative person, and are stifling your creativity for your desk job, please read this. There are lots of good ideas in this book, it's inspiring and I will be trying some of the suggestions in it.

• Paradoxically ironic
  If you're so creative, then why can't you figure out an unconventional way to capitalize on it?
  Sincerely,
  A creative person trying to figure out an innovative way to pay bills
  

• Great book for ADDers
  This book was written in the seventies. Whoever fell under the definition of "creative" in this book would be labelled ADD today. I wish I had found this gem when I was struggling through school figuring out what I want to do with my life. It's a great read that stands the test of time.
  Some great quotes from the book:
  "Again and Again, the findings from psychological and vocational studies indicate interests in art, music and literature are associated with more neurotic problems."
  "The... more info

• Ideal job-hunting resource for creatives
  Dr. Eikleberry's research is based on the Holland Codes, three-letter codes designed to describe your work interests. You take an extensive interest test and get a three-letter code that describes, in order from most applicable to least, the three areas out of six that you have the most interest in. The idea is that there are six basic personality types when it comes to work, but that all of us possess some mixture of those types, and it's most useful to look at those three that best describe each of us.... more info

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