In the second section, you’ll explore a menu of options designed to help you implement those lessons through a variety of strategies and tactics.Įverything you’ll learn in both sections is highly practical. In the first section, you’ll master a series of lessons that will help you understand what you want and how to get it. If you don’t want to choose between the two undesirable options, this book will show you a third way.

This book will help you find that thing, too. Whether through their own brilliance or, more likely, as a result of trial and error, they’ve found the work they were born to do-and that’s what makes all the difference. They’ve won the career lottery, and the results weren’t all determined by chance. As you’ll see throughout this book, some people manage to find this work. What if you don’t want to settle? What if you want to find the kind of work that you truly love and you don’t want to eat ramen noodles every night? Why can’t you have it all? There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with either choice, but neither is that exciting. Or maybe the kind of work you love doesn’t pay all that well, so you accept the sacrifice for what you receive in return. You don’t love your work, but that’s okay, because you love other things. In the second scenario, you decide to live frugally, working a job that supports your basic needs without taking up all your time. They can’t see any alternatives, so they disengage from work and try to find meaning and purpose elsewhere. This first scenario is not actually that unusual-plenty of people do this. You spend a third of your life doing something you don’t like, but you decide not to take any steps to change that situation. In the first scenario, you accept that there’s no way out, and you continue working the soul-crushing job that steals your joy. If you find yourself trapped for the foreseeable future, you have two obvious options: settle or make a trade-off. Many people really are stuck in soul-crushing jobs, with no escape route in sight. The best satires relate to real life in some way.

It’s wonderful that I’m trapped here for the foreseeable future, he says. Yet because the man sees no alternative, he decides he really likes it.

The job, as you might expect from a satirical newspaper, is a soul-crushing and tedious one. OBJECTIVE: Pursue the Right Opportunities (and Say Farewell to the Wrong Ones)Īppendix 2: Here’s How I’ll Make You a Lot of Money (Email Pitch)Īppendix 3: Never Lose at Tic-Tac-Toe (Bonus Lesson!)Ī headline from the Onion proclaimed, Man Convinces Himself He Has the Job of His Dreams. OBJECTIVE: Recruit a Small Army of Fans and Supporters OBJECTIVE: Play the Game That Will Increase Your Odds OBJECTIVE: Expand Your Options, Then Limit Themĩ: How to Become a Firefighter (or Whatever You Want) OBJECTIVE: Choose the Winning Ticket to Your Career Lottery

Born for this by chris guillebeau