Riding The Rocket: How To Manage Your Modern Career


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Riding the Rocket means managing your Modern Career. This is the only book in this genre that uses the unique concept of a Modern Career to guide people. It s a practical how to book, giving people the tools and motivation to create opportunities for themselves. People need to self-manage their career in order to keep working and this book is here to enable them to do so. Like rockets, careers can be unpredictable, require fine tuning, need maintenance and above all need someone to control their direction and speed. We have to be to be proactive, resilient and adaptable and manage our career so that it works for us and gives us the working life that we want. The working world is full of risk, change and uncertainty ...and also opportunity. Compared to the static career-ladder approach of the post-war era, we now live in a Modern Career world where technology, globalisation and economic rebuilding are giving people the opportunity to create and manage a flexible career for themselves. We can all choose to retrain, change industries, set up our own business, work as a consultant or create a portfolio lifestyle




Riding the Rocket


Book Description

Riding the Rocket means managing your Modern Career. This is the only book in this genre that uses the unique concept of a Modern Career to guide people. It's a practical 'how to' book, giving people the tools and motivation to create opportunities for themselves. People need to self-manage their career in order to keep working and this book is here to enable them to do so. Like rockets, careers can be unpredictable, require fine tuning, need maintenance and above all need someone to control their direction and speed. We have to be to be proactive, resilient and adaptable and manage our career so that it works for us and gives us the working life that we want. The working world is full of risk, change and uncertainty ...and also opportunity. Compared to the static career-ladder approach of the post-war era, we now live in a Modern Career world where technology, globalisation and economic rebuilding are giving people the opportunity to create and manage a flexible career for themselves. We can all choose to retrain, change industries, set up our own business, work as a consultant or create a portfolio lifestyle.




Building the Rocket


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In our working lives, we are all flying our personal career rocket through space and time and it's up to us to choose which direction to fly in and how high to travel. The book Riding the Rocket: How to Manage Your Modern Career explores in more detail the process of flying our rocket and making a success of our career. But before we can ignite the engines and blast off into the stratosphere we first need to build our rocket, which leads us to this quick-read companion e-book. It contains unique content and is designed to get us thinking about our rocket, challenges our underlying assumptions and previews the main book.




Leave the Bastards Behind


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Have you ever thought of working for yourself? Maybe its something you’ve been dreaming about for years. Is so, Leave the Bastards Behind is for you. For too long, you’ve worked for other people’s companies and been bossed around by terrible bosses. Now is the time to work for the best boss you could have — yourself! Whatever your dream profession, this is a book to help you make the transition from fed-up wage slave to enthusiastic self-employed free-man or free-woman. Written in a breezy, pithy, informative and useful style, the book is an insider’s guide to the realities of setting up your own business and working for yourself. The author, Richard Maun writes candidly about his own real-life experience, including his thoughts, his successes and his failures. Maun reveals the secrets of developing a client base and the skills that will help you through the door to self-employment. This book also contains a useful personal planning kit, designed to help you answer some of those thorny questions that will have to be addressed if you are to be a successful selfer. Working for yourself is one of the richest experiences in life. This practical and inspirational book will put you on the road to success and help you achieve your dream




The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist


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This book translates "thinking like a rocket scientist" into every day thinking so it can be used by anyone. It’s short and snappy and written by a rocket scientist. The book illustrates the methods (the 7 secrets) with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of famous scientists, personal stories and insights, and occasionally some space history. The author reveals that rocket science is just common sense applied to the extraordinarily uncommon environment of outer space and that rocket scientists are people, too. It is intended for "armchair" scientists, and for those interested in popular psychology, space history, and science fiction films.







Maximum PC


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Maximum PC is the magazine that every computer fanatic, PC gamer or content creator must read. Each and every issue is packed with punishing product reviews, insightful and innovative how-to stories and the illuminating technical articles that enthusiasts crave.




Modern Steel Construction


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Riding Rockets


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Selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of shuttle astronauts, Mike Mullane completed three missions and logged 356 hours aboard the Discovery and Atlantis shuttles. It was a dream come true. As a boy, Mullane could only read about space travel in science fiction, but the launch of Sputnik changed all that. Space flight became a possible dream and Mike Mullane set out to make it come true. In this absorbing memoir, Mullane gives the first-ever look into the often hilarious, sometime volatile dynamics of space shuttle astronauts - a class that included Vietnam War veterans, feminists, and propeller-headed scientists. With unprecedented candour, Mullane describes the chilling fear and unparalleled joy of space flight. As his career centred around the Challenger disaster, Mullane also recounts the heartache of burying his friends and colleagues. And he pulls no punches as he reveals the ins and outs of NASA, frank in his criticisms of the agency. A blast from start to finish, Riding Rockets is a straight-from-the-gut account of what it means to be an astronaut, just in time for this latest generation of stargazers.




Billboard


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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.