This book is great! It really opened my eyes to a lot of careers I never would have even heard of.

My dad bought me this book after hearing about it on National Public Radio and, at first, I was a bit skeptical. I mean, who really wants to waste time reading another boring ‘How to’ book on how to get a cool job? But really, this book isn’t like that at all. It’s factual of course, so you don’t have to worry about how much of it is just hot air. But it’s also very comical, interesting, and respectfully realistic. Not a candy-coater, but in no ways a dream crusher. What more could you ask for <3?

This book is a great concept and is extremely well executed. It achieves its goal of presenting actual informational interviews with cool interesting people who are top in their fields. It’s the equivalent of going to an intimate dinner party with people who have interesting jobs you might want, without the awkwardness of hounding folks about the details of what they do and how they went about getting to do it. The book is also very funny of course — Rosen’s conversational style writing, taglines and charts and graphs gave me many laughs out loud. I wish I had had this book when I got out of college and the only job I could imagine wanting was working as an intern/page on Letterman. Great gift for anyone who thinks they need a life coach (one of the jobs profiled). Cheaper too.