Don't Get a Job…Make a Job New Edition Inventive career models for next-gen creatives

Is it your dream to make it as a creative? Imagine for one moment that there are no employers, no firms to send your CV to, no interviews to be had. How would you forge your own path? The most ingenious and driven designers have found ways of making opportunities for themselves across the creative disciplines - ways you can learn from too.

Don't Get a Job?... Make a Job celebrates the various strategies that the next generation of creatives are taking to gain exposure and define their own success.

This revised edition includes inspirational advice and a new chapter on making a difference, features new stories from 13 innovative designer-entrepreneurs, and checks in with many of the original creatives from the first edition.

Gem Barton is an author, academic and futurist. She is Senior Tutor in Interior Design at the Royal College of Art, London, and author of These Cards Will Change Your Career (Laurence King, 2020).