Career Management for the Creative Person

By Rachel Bright

Book Overview

Attention all artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, actors, and anyone working in creative fields -- even if your chosen profession is not the most traditional one, cultivating and growing a successful, financially rewarding career is still your goal. In Career Management for the Creative Person, Lee Silber provides you with expert advice on overcoming some of the specific challenges faced by right-brainers who want a career that is both satisfying and successful. Freelancers, those thinking about changing careers midstream, and even creative people working in corporate environments need a set of skills that will turn their passion into a viable career. These skills include: * How to chose the career that best suits your talents * Setting realistic goals using right-brain techniques * How to avoid the pitfalls that ruin a creative career * How to schmooze your way to success * How to create a business plan when you are the business * How to be disciplined when you are your own boss When you find an outlet for your creativity in the form of a career, you'll discover a freedom in your working life that you can live with for the long term. You can follow your passion, build a brilliant career, and have financial security -- if you know which skills to use. Let Lee Silber show you the way.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609803654
• ISBN13: 9780609803653
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

How to have it all

In this exciting book, Author Lee Silber tells us, "You can have it all when it comes to a creative career--if you know how." And he gives us practical and applicable tips and techniques to help us know our deepest desires and talents and set our goals to achieve them. He shows us how to find our career niche and earn a living doing what we love. Career Management for the Creative Person helps us to overcome...

A Must Have Guide for Right-Brainers

This book puts everything in perspective for Right-Brainers. You don't have to fit into a mold, you can be different and also productive. Lee makes you feel that is okay to take a different path to your destined goals. Without goals whether you are left-brained or a right-brained person the journey will be long and dubious. This book provides the outline necessary to truly get to know one-self and what you expect out...

Career Management for the Creative Person

At a point where I'm considering a career change, this book has been a great help. Lee's books are fun to read, and this one is also great! He puts in a lot of helpful tips, quizes, and lists. Being more "both-brain" than right brain makes no difference in the insight that this book provides to people wanting to know "why" they do what they do for a living. Put this book on your list of "must reads!"

A MUST BUY

Lee Silber has done it again, writing an excellent help guide for any writer or artist, or anyone who is even remotely thinking of becoming one. Silber provides icredible insight, energy, and confidence on a friendly, conversation level that I think the masses can easily relate to. Who else could find one venue to meld anecdotes from the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Ally Sheedy, William Shakespeare, and Ryan Leaf? Even if you...

BUY THIS BOOK!

When I saw this book, it had my name written all over it. Being a creative person is wonderful but it is also a challenge. Career Management for the Creative Person helps to put everything into perspective so one can successfully and happily fulfill their dreams. I loved Lee's style of writing. I was never bored and found the book hard to put down. I was inspired by numerous stories but more importantly, I was given practical...