May 2014
Beginner
50 pages
1h 21m
English
book
Careers For Creative People: Advertising: and some real world advice from ridiculously talented individuals doing jobs they love
by ChRiS Gomersall, Dan Keston
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Money is only a small part of it
A career is about so much more than making money, especially when you’re creative. Anyone can go out and get paid for performing a task. Stock this, serve that, carry this over here, dig, talk, sort, stack, sell—you name it. Most of the world makes a great living finding something they're good at and doing that thing over and over again until they've saved up enough money to retire. It's a proven concept and chances are most of the people you know are happy to follow suit. Fortunately, there's a small percent of the population that can't stand repetition. People that are, coincidentally, a lot like you.
Let us make this easy for you: Creativity is as genetic as eye color. It's hard-coded, baby. Built in. Irreversible. ...
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