BORN FOR THIS--Author event with Chris Guillebeau

Bookshop Santa Cruz, Event Santa Cruz, and Verve Coffee invite you to an awesome conversation about passion, work, and prioritizing your own happiness.

It’s not a myth—there are people who jump out of bed every morning, excited and energized to go to work. At first glance, it may seems that by some stroke of luck or circumstance they've found the one thing they love to do—and they're getting paid well to do it. Yet in reality, their good fortune has nothing to do with chance. There's a method for finding your own perfect job.

In Born For This, Chris Guillebeau, the bestselling author of The $100 Start Up, has created a practical, actionable guide that can help you turn your passion into paychecks whether within a traditional company or business, or by striking out on your own. Doing what brings you joy is admirable, but if you aren’t earning a living, it's a hobby, not a career. Born For This carefully outlines what Guillebeau refers to as the “career lottery”—the perfect job that involves the skills you’re best at and enjoy the most while also paying the bills. Guillebeau shows how to narrow your options from what you can do to what you should do, and reminds us that when it comes to the career lottery, you have to enter to win. It’s up to you to look out for your own best interest and take responsibility for your success. That means finding both your ideal form of work as well as your ideal working conditions. Your goal: find that one job or career that feels so right, it’s like you were born to do it. Through inspiring stories of those who have successfully landed their dream career, as well as actionable tools, exercises, and thought experiments, Guillebeau will guide you through today’s vast menu of career options to discover the work perfectly suited to your unique interests, skills, and experiences.

From “hacking” the job of your dreams within a traditional organization to starting a profitable “side hustle” or building a mini-empire as an entrepreneur, there is a way for you to enjoy every day’s work and feel fulfilled by what you do all day.
Chris Guillebeau is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The $100 Startup and The Happiness of Pursuit, and is creator and host of the annual World Domination Summit, a gathering of thousands of cultural creatives and thought leaders. Guillebeau speaks at dozens of events, companies, and universities, including Google, Facebook, SXSW, Evernote, LeWeb, and more. He recently completed a ten-year personal quest to visit every country in the world.