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Real World Careers

Why College Is Not the Only Path to Becoming Rich

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By Betsy Cummings

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On Sale
May 30, 2009
Page Count
224 pages
Publisher
Business Plus
ISBN-13
9780446561440

Price

$9.99

Price

$12.99 CAD

Format

  1. Trade Paperback

Format:

  1. ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD
  2. Trade Paperback $19.99 $25.99 CAD

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The most provocative business book of the year is the ultimate guide to having a great career and financial security — even if you haven’t graduated with a college degree.

With so much emphasis in society on the importance of finishing college, Real World Careers is filled with inspirational stories of people who skipped college or left early, launched successful careers and were able to accelerate their earnings potential. From information technology to construction, blue collar to business startups, many jobs offer excellent pay and personal fulfillment and don’t require a college degree.

Written by an award-winning business journalist, this book also provides information on:
  • the vocational and trade schools that are a faster,
  • more strategic road to landing work
  • flexible and incentive-based careers that don’t require a college degree
  • the option of entrepreneurship
  • overcoming preconceptions
  • and much more.

Genre:

  • Nonfiction
  • Business & Economics
  • Careers
  • General

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Betsy Cummings

About the Author

Betsy Cummings is the author of How to Find a Job After 50 and writes regularly about the job market for the New York Times. She is the recipient of the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award and the American Society of Business Press Editors Award.

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