Born for This

A step-by-step guide by Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup, sets out to help readers find the work they were born to do, inside a traditional company or by striking out alone. He lays out a method and framework for turning passions into paychecks. The routes he describes include launching a side job that becomes a profitable business, landing a dream position within an established organization, building an entirely new profession around varied interests, and reshaping a humdrum job into work worth loving. The goal, as Guillebeau frames it, is a self-styled career that feels so right it hardly seems like work.

Michael Woodward, founder of jumbleThink, described it as a book about learning what a person was born or created to do.