The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People

Customer Reviews

If you aim higher than simply finding a more attractive job, forget the book. It's not for you.

Now, let me tell you about the book itself. Carol Eikleberry obviously worked hard on it. She has given her best to make the book as appealing and interesting as possible. However, every time I open and read it, I just can't help the feeling that the career advisor Eikleberry is much, much better than the writer Eikleberry. If you have a chance to talk to her in person, I advise you to do it. Besides of the obvious point that the author pays very little attention to the possibility of being one's own boss, she also concentrates too much on her own type of unconventionality. I fell in a pretty different category in her personality test and there's hardly any advice for my type in the book. That's what I meant by saying that the book is for conventional people with small ambitions.

Now, I can well understand that Carol Eikleberry had the largest possible audience in mind while writing the book. Surely, she knows from her solid professional experience which types are more frequent. Probably I'm just too different from an average unhappy American. I really can't blame her. But I can return the book - in fact, I did, for it was useless for me.

The two good things in this book are a very interesting personality test - a kind you probably haven't seen before, and tens of job ideas, some of which might be pretty surprising for you. Otherwise, it's just plain mediocre. It well deserves three stars.

This book has helped me see that I need to be in a creative environment and use my creativity in order to thrive in a career. Not only do I need a creative environment, but the book broke things down further by helping me see that I need to be in a creative environment in which I work with ideas and things. I have always been employed in jobs which relied heavily on working with people, something that I have realized is just not for me. It is so wonderful to know that there are other choices out there for creative types and the author includes an extensive list of creative and unconventional careers that are organized by Holland's Theory so I know which careers to focus on as well as which one's to steer clear of. I have only read half way through and I can't recommend this book enough!

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