Is small business ownership a career?

via Duct Tape Marketing Blog by John Jantsch on 24 March

Dan Pink is the author of two very important books on ideas around careers - Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind.

If you own a small business, that's your current career -- but I wonder how many small business owners actually view it that way?


I caught up with him for a recent episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast to discuss his latest take on work called The Adventures of Johnny Bunko - the last career guide you will ever need. One of the most intriguing elements of the book is that it's written in the Japanese comic style known as manga - a book style known in the US primarily by teens, but widely used to communicate every possible topic to kids and adults in Japan.


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Hazel's comment:
Manga is not the style I would choose for a careers advice book but I was always more into reading longer stories than comics even as a child. I haven't grown out of that. However, only yesterday I spent some time with the 20-year-old son of a friend who is heavily into manga and there is no doubt that he would just love this approach to deciding his future career. It may be that this is one to persuade your local public library to stock or perhaps the school library although that does remove from the orbit of interested adults. The original article from John was intended to be a call to small business owner/managers to see their current role as a career -- I think it's more useful reporting it here in ADSET's information weblog rather than the business one.