Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy

You hear it everywhere: the days of good jobs, great careers - even with a college degree - are over and dead. That the economy has become so mystifyingly controlled, convoluted and convulsive that a lifetime career has become a fantasy pursuit for chumps. In this bewildering environment, how do you get direction, and more importantly, move forward? In Get a Job, Build a Real Career, and Defy a Bewildering Economy, respected financial blogger Charles Smith (oftwominds.com) turns the conventional wisdom on its head. This book delivers the insight and positive action plan to get you employed. Just starting out? Laid off? Trying to restart you career? Get a Job, Build a Real Career, and Defy a Bewildering Economy arms you with the knowledge you need. Are you a parent, grandparent, friend or counselor helping others sort education and career options? Get a Job, Build a Real Career, and Defy a Bewildering Economy assays the current economic maelstrom to give you a fresh, invigorating perspective - and the competitive edge - to understand how to get a job, and build the career you want. This book is designed to tilt the odds in your favor, whether you are a high school or college student, a recent college graduate pondering graduate school or someone re-entering the workforce after a layoff.

• Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform
• An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times
• Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege (An Of Two Minds Essential) (Volume 2)
• The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy: The Revolution in Higher Education
• A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All: The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningful
• Money and Work Unchained
• Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation
• Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change
• Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting
• The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny