Scott Gerber - Never Get a Real Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke

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Praise for Never Get A Real Job

This kick-ass book will save you from a kiss-ass job. For best results, read it from your cubicleand then start planning your farewell trip to the bosss office.

Chris Guillebeau, author of The Art of Non-Conformity

Its never too late to become what you could have been... this book will get you started!

Elliott Bisnow, founder, Summit Series Conferences

Scott Gerber is a straight shooter who tells it like it is. Never Get a Real Job is the Gen Y wake-up call. Its the end of fun and games; time to get a handle on reality. Scott gives solid advice for someone whos buried the 9-to-5, underemployed, or unemployed. If you arent buying this book for your kids, buy it for yourself.

Matt Wilson, cofounder, Under30CEO.com

If youre in search of a wake-up call from your disheveled and sedentary lifestyle, read this book. Scott slaps arrogance, ignorance, and mainstream theory directly in the face with dose after dose of real-world practicality.

Gary Whitehill, founder of New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW) and The Relentless Foundation

Every high school senior should be handed this book along with his or her diploma as they cross the graduation stage. Through a skillfully crafted combination of humor, practical advice, and in-your-face wake-up calls, Scott Gerber makes a rock solid case for why, in todays world, the old advice of Get good grades, go to college, and get a good job is outdated and impractical, and how its not just possible, but highly advisable, to Never Get a Real Job !

Adam Toren, cofounder and CEO, YoungEntrepreneur.com ; and coauthor of Kidpreneurs

This book IS NOT for the happily employed, or eager to be employed. If you are, it will either offend you, depress you, or make you want to quit. Be afraid, be very afraid, as Scott says here. But, for all those who have an itchy feeling about the idea of taking a job to merely pay the bills, this book is your savior. Never Get a Real Job totally personifies the wild ride that is entrepreneurship: Its raw, real, sobering, shocking, making you laugh, cry, curse... all while reassuring you that youd never want to do anything else with your life. Its a frank, candid, in-your-face, no-holds-barred book for the antiemployment types. And there are plenty of those out there. You may be one of them. If you are, Never Get a Real Job is definitely for you.

Jennifer Kushell, founder of YSN.com , Your Success Network; and author of the New York Times best-seller, Secrets of the Young & Successful

I could never hold a real job. If you cant either, read Scott Gerbers new book about how to take control of your own future as a small business owner. You wont always enjoy the ride, but it will be exhilarating!

Barry Moltz, author of You Need to Be a Little Crazy

NEVER GET A REAL JOB

Copyright 2011 by Scott Gerber. All rights reserved.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

Published simultaneously in Canada.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Gerber, Scott, 1983-

Never get a real job : how to dump your boss, build a business, and not go broke / Scott Gerber.

p. cm.

ISBN 9780470643860 (cloth)

ISBN 9780470925478 (ebk)

ISBN 9780470925485 (ebk)

ISBN 9780470925492 (ebk)

1. Entrepreneurship. 2. Self-employed. 3. New business enterprises. 4. Small business. 5. Success in business. I. Title.

HB615.G48 2010

658.1'1dc22

2010024730

This book is dedicated to the death of the real job.

Die, you miserable bastard.

Acknowledgments

Ive poured every ounce of blood, sweat, and tears I could muster into Never Get a Real Job . Its my hope that this book gives you the strength, practical knowledge, and swift kick in the ass you need to avoid unemployment or underemployment, or quit lousy, life-draining 9-to-5s once and for all. May it give you the sense of purpose and perspective you need to kick your boss to the curb and never look back.

Before I shed light on the arduous, yet rewarding journey that lies ahead, Id like to take a moment to thank the many people who have made Never Get a Real Job possible. My editorial team was simply top notch. I have never simultaneously loved and hated a group of people as much as the great folks who stood behind me during this grueling process.

To my partner in crime/book and Entrepreneur magazine editor, Kimberlee Morrison: Thank you for jumping on board the Death to the Real Job Express with me. Your guidance, support, and no-holds-barred editorial approach played an instrumental role in transforming this book from mere words on a page to hardcore advice worth reading. Youre one tough cookie, and I love you for it.

Partnering with John Wiley & Sons, Inc., on Never Get a Real Job was without a doubt the right move. My book editor Dan Ambrosio helped steer this books content in the right direction from the very beginning. If it werent for him, I might not have written this book in the first place. Thanks for believing in me, pal. I look forward to a long and prosperous collaboration.

Many thanks to my friends, colleagues, and loved ones who read and reviewed countless drafts and kept me from losing my mind during my quest to reach the Holy Grail of 60,000-plus words: Tana Pierce (the love of my life), Stephen Gnoza, Michael Volpe, Adam Steinhaus, Rachel Cohn, Geoff Glisson, Tyler Cohn, Jenny Winters, Julia Monti, Adam Biren, and Ron Adler. The panels mix of real job loyalists, aspiring small business owners, and hard-liner entrepreneurs made for great debates and insightful exchanges that I wont soon forget.