The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People

The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People
3rd Edition
by Carol Eikleberry
Ten Speed, 2007

 

 

First conceived as her doctoral thesis, this updated and enlarged edition is based on the Holland Codes, three-letter codes designed to describe your work interests. Holland’s theory is that there are six basic personality types: artistic, social, investigative, realistic, conventional, and enterprising. All of us are a mixture of these types, but we’ll be dominant in three of them. But Eickleberry realizes that our interests aren’t the only considerations we have when looking for a job. For example, many of us aren’t happy unless we can work with people who have similar values or respect our abilities, even if it means working at a job that doesn’t perfectly suit us. Most of us also need to take salary into account, since we have to live on what we take home.

The Career Guide offers a wide array of information on creative career choices that might completely support you; taking day jobs and working on your art in your own time; and manifesting your own career. Eikleberry uses inspiring anecdotes from people who created new careers for themselves to show us that we can do what we’re interested in, even if there doesn’t seem to be a place for it right now. (It is, I admit, a variation of the ‘do what you love and the money will follow’ advice. But that isn’t always bad advice.)

In looking at past editions, I note that there are three main changes to this new edition. First, the section on the world of work has been updated. Eikleberry says that “The good news is that there is proportionally more opportunity for creatives in the workforce today… There are more jobs today where employers are recognizing and rewarding creativity.” Second, fifty new occupations were added, while only ten were eliminated from the Career Reference Section. Third, Eikleberry has created a website (www.creativecareers.com) and put the career tools that she uses with clients there. This gives readers access and allows them to use the Creative Career Notebook more independently for career decision making and job search.

This is a wonderful, focused, goal-directed book that can help nearly any creative person find a better job. There are no guarantees of finding your dream job, much less immediately, but it will help you make decisions that will get you closer to a rewarding and satisfying career.

LISA McSHERRY.

RATING: 5 Broomsticks

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Pagan Protocol

Pagan Protocol
by L. S. Alabaster
Corvid Media, 2006

 

There is no such thing as common sense. To assume, amidst oceans of cultural differences, that any one set of values is universal would negate the needs for guides like Ms. Manners or Pagan Protocol.

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