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The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People (Career Guide For...) |  | Author: Carol Eikleberry
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 16937
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1580088414
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.702
EAN: 9781580088411
ASIN: 1580088414
Publication Date: April 1, 2007
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You don't have to stifle your creative impulses to pay the bills. For anyone who's ever been told, "Don't quit your day job," career counselor Carol Eikleberry is here to say, "Pursue your dreams!" Now in its third edition, her inspiring guide provides knowledgeable career guidance, real-life success stories, and eye-opening self-evaluation tools to help artistic individuals figure out how to remain different, unconventional, and hard-to-categorize while finding work they love.
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 Unemployed and running out of options - job hunt outside the box August 20, 2010
Dianne Walker (Virginia, USA)
With the unemployment rate continuing to spiral out of control, people are looking for work everywhere - anywhere. The time may have come signaling the end of traditional jobs as we know it. The millions of Americans out of work may need to turn to the unexpected and unusual. Author Carol Eikleberry, Ph D has provided a thinking platform to help readers get to that place. That was the perspective that I used when reading the book.
The Career Guide for Creative Unconventional People, begins by helping the reader to see that just because they don't fit into the typical 9-5 work category, that they are not unusual. To accomplish this, there is a long discussion on personality types. Once you've learned that you are not alone, you learn how to create your own career and make it happen.
There are so many career choices available. For example, if you like to write (which is fast becoming a hot career) consider these suggestions from the book - biographer, continuity writer, critic or crossword puzzle maker. Do you like to coach or instruct people? Creative and Unconventional suggests - coaching, graduate assistant, librarian or liberal arts faculty.
While I like the book, it can be a bit tedious to read and can become bogged down at times. The Career Reference Section at the end of the book, however, is a must read for people contemplating unconventional career paths.
 Great Book July 23, 2010
Shelley Good
This is the best book I have read for advising creative or Intuitive personalities. I would suggest you to read it if you are not sure how to change your career.
Valuable Insights June 16, 2009
Suzanne (United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Despite the clunky title (which apparently works since the book is in its 7th printing!) Eicklberry has created a guide book that offers practical insight and direction to help you identify your areas of interest and then encouragement to pursue your targetted career. For instance, to help you identify careers that match your creative impulse, she directs you to a variety of career/interest tests that you can take online for free or through a career counselor for a fee. She then provides encouragement on how to turn your interests into either a career or an afterwork hobby that will provide an outlet for your creative drive. In all, a valuable book.
Enlightening September 4, 2008
October Way
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 January 13, 2008
M. Salkowitz (Upstate, NY US)
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
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
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