Never Get a "Real" Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (592 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0470643862 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Scott Gerber is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated business columnist, and founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an organization comprised of hundreds of the world's most successful young entrepreneurs that promotes entrepreneurship as a solution to youth unemployment. Follow
Office politics, dress down days, cubicle life, water cooler rants, a lack of real decision making ability--they all made me want to reach for Vodka and a bottle of Xanax. What made you want to be an entrepreneur? The thought of working for someone else gave me chills. Young serial entrepreneur Scott Gerber is not the product of a wealthy family or storied entrepreneurial heritage. It’s becoming more and more apparent that in today’s world, young people will need to create a job to keep a job. Rather, he is a hard-working, self-taught 26-year-old hustler, rainmaker, and bootstrapper who has survived and thrived despite never having held the proverbial "real” job.In Never Get a "Real" Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business, and Not Go Broke, Gerber challenges the social conventions behind the "real" job and empowers young people to take control of their lives and dump their nine-to-fives—or their quest to attain them.Drawing upon case studies, experiences, and observations, Scott dissects failures, shares hard
"I'm calling shenanigans!" according to Rob. The title of the book is great. unfortunately, that's all it has going for it. The book is very negative, full of clichés, and doesn't delve meaningfully into the topics. It's more like sound-bites with a lot of ranting. I didn't walk away with any practical or actionable advice. It definitely doesn't deliver on the title, which I'd bet was just an afterthought they paid some clever marketer to come up with.I'M CALLING SHENANIGANS!I thought to myself,. Disappointed This wasn't worth the afternoon I wasted reading the entire thing. I kept going, hoping that the sinking feeling I had would go away, but it never really did.Sure, I sort of bought into the first one or two chapters, as it reflected some of my own feelings and frustrations in my post-graduate life. But when he got into the actual nuts and bolts of his business approach, I found his attitude really off-putting, along with the constant references to MTV and ot. "Never pay for something you can find on Google for free" according to Bob. I purchased this book on the recommendation of Peter Shankman via his Help a Reporter e-mail blast. I read the sample, read the reviews and thought that this would be one of those "must have" books for entrepreneurs.I plowed through the first half but grew tired of Gerber's "get tough" attitude/lecturing. Gerber is not quite bloviating but his voice is pretty close. Luckily the second half of the book is much better. It's filled with useful lists of resource
And in Never Get a "Real" Job, he shows you how he succeeded so you can overcome today's chronic conditions of mass unemployment, underemployment, and dead-end 9-to-5s.Gerber gives you the no-bull reality on turning your business idea into a viable enterprise capable of generating real income now—based on his hard-knocks lessons learned in the entrepreneurial trenches. Along with straight-shooting advice on creating contacts and cultivating clients, he offers practical, affordable, step-by-step instructions on how to constantly analyze, refine, and target your business offerings—while minimizing wasted time and keeping you on track.With vast resources like online tools, Web sites, checklists, and hard coaching, as well as thousands of dollars worth of connections to free and discounted small business services, Never Get a "Real" Job takes you off the unrewarding resume and cover letter cycle, while putting you on the road toward becoming a self-suffi