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Don't Get a Job…Make a Job New Edition

Inventive career models for next-gen creatives
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Don't Get a Job?... Make a Job by Gem Barton explores how creative individuals can carve out their own pathways without relying on traditional employment. The book showcases ingenious strategies used by designers and creative professionals to create their own opportunities and achieve success on their own terms. This revised edition features updated advice, a new chapter on making a difference, insights from 13 new designer-entrepreneurs, and updates from contributors to the original edition.
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This book is ideal for aspiring creatives, designers, and anyone eager to pursue a career in the arts by embracing entrepreneurship and self-starting approaches rather than following conventional job routes.

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Is it your dream to make it as a creative? Imagine for one moment that there are no employers, no firms to send your CV to, no interviews to be had. How would you forge your own path? The most ingenious and driven designers have found ways of making opportunities for themselves across the creative disciplines—ways you can learn from too.

Don't Get a Job… Make a Job celebrates the various strategies that the next generation of creatives are taking to gain exposure and define their own success.

This revised edition includes inspirational advice and a new chapter on making a difference, features new stories from 13 innovative designer-entrepreneurs, and checks in with many of the original creatives from the first edition.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529420364

Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 September 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Laurence King Publishing

Illustration: 380

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 144.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Gem Barton is an author, academic and futurist. She is Senior Tutor in Interior Design at the Royal College of Art, London, and author of These Cards Will Change Your Career (Laurence King, 2020).

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