Don't Get a Job...Make a Job New Edition
Inventive career models for next-gen creatives
Published on 14. September 2023
160 pages
978-1-5294-2037-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quercus Publishing
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
380
File size
37,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5294-2037-1 (9781529420371)
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Other editions
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Book
09/2023
Laurence King Publishing
€20.00
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Person
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).
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Self-promotion
- Don't be led by your audience
- Put yourself out there
- Shoot your shot
- Advice - Don't be daunted by self-promotion
- In Motion
- Go to the clients, don't make them come to you
- Ideas can be generated anywhere
- Bend the rules
- Advice - The challenges of being a professional nomad
- Make a Difference
- Take a stand
- Bet on yourself
- Be the change you want to see
- Advice - Know that you can
- Specialism and Diversity
- Learn from your idols
- Repeat, repeat, improve, repeat
- See doubt as a tool, not a weapon
- Embrace the 'busyness'
- Swim against the tide
- Advice - Expand your collective language to expand your world
- Resilience
- Trust your instincts
- Pivot, make lemonade
- Take the mic
- Advice - Build best-case scenarios in your imagination
- Going It Alone and Teaming Up
- Listen to your inner passion
- Don't run before you can walk
- Family matters
- Feel your way
- The more true to yourself, the better
- Advice - Go it alone or team up?
- Gusto
- Don't wait for things to happen
- Work smart and take risks
- Make the 'everyday' beautiful
- Advice - You can't count on money to encourage you to get up in the morning
- Credits
- Acknowledgements
