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F**k Work, Let's Play: Do What You Love and Get Paid For It, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson Business (November 6, 2020) © 2021

  • John Spencer Williams
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Stuck in a job that’s boring you to tears? Slogging away at a business that’s never quite taken off? Still can’t decide what you’d rather do? It’s time to say ‘enough’.
The world has changed. It’s now possible for anyone to make a living from doing the things they love. The only problem is that no one has shown you how. Until now.
Based on life-changing ideas and tools proven with tens of thousands of people over the last decade, F**k Work Let’s Play is your blueprint to create a work-life full of fun, freedom and creativity; something more like play than work.
Packed full of stories from people who turned a passion into a living – or even a multi-million-pound business – you’ll discover 10 secrets to transform your working life, starting today.
There’s no need to suffer unfulfilling work a moment longer. Whether you want to start a business, create your ideal job, or change the world, F**k Work, Let’s Play is your guide to doing what you love and getting paid for it.
  • About this book
  • Secret one: How to work out what you really really want
  • Secret two: How to choose what to do next
  • Secret three: How to get started right now
  • Secret four: How to guarantee your success
  • Secret five: How to play for profit . . . and purpose
  • Secret six: How to play the fame game and win
  • Secret seven: How to create an irresistible offer
  • Secret eight: How to win your first playcheque
  • Secret nine: How to play full time
  • Secret ten: How to play your way to the rich life
  • Let's play
John Williams started his career in creative technology - as a developer on pioneering special effects software (including on-site work at Disney Feature Animation, LA) and broadcast automation for the BBC and others.
He became Digital Media CTO at a European startup incubator before moving to head up a media technology consultancy team at Deloitte. John left to consult independently to broadcasters around the world before writing his first bestselling book Screw Work Let's Play and founding The Ideas Lab which has now helped thousands of people to start a business they love. Screw Work Let's Play was selected by The Sunday Times as one of the top 6 hottest new self-help tomes and has now been translated into 10 languages.

And now announcing a completely revised, updated and expanded version with a new, stronger title - F**k Work Let's Play - for the world we find ourselves in now.
Life is fleeting; why waste it on work that has no meaning for you?

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