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You Can Be Anything!
A Modern Day Guide To Careers Of Tomorrow
Brett Joseph
Most career advice describes a world that is already gone. This book was written to do the opposite: to show a reader the work that is being created right now, explain it in plain language, and make the path into it feel reachable rather than mysterious.
Format
Kindle and paperback
Written for
Students, parents and career changers
Mission
Widen what a reader believes is possible
Reading sample
Eight pages
An excerpt from the opening of the book.
Page 1
Start with a bigger question
Most people are asked what they want to be long before they know what exists. The list of answers is short because the list of examples is short: the jobs held by the adults nearby, and the jobs shown on a screen.
This book widens the list. Not with fantasy, but with work that is already being paid for — roles that barely existed a decade ago and will be ordinary a decade from now.
Page 2
The shape of work is changing, not disappearing
Every wave of technology retires some tasks and creates others. The mistake is to watch only the retiring half. The half being created is quieter at first, and far more interesting.
A useful habit: whenever you hear that something is being automated, ask who now supervises, designs, verifies, repairs, explains or sells the automated thing. Those are jobs.
Page 3
Five forces behind tomorrow's careers
Nearly every emerging role in this book traces back to one of five forces: intelligent software, the energy transition, longer and better health, the creator economy, and the rebuilding of physical infrastructure.
You do not need to predict the future precisely. You need to stand somewhere the wind is blowing.
Page 4
How to read a career honestly
For each role, ask four things: what does a normal Tuesday look like, what does it pay at the start and at year ten, what is the real entry path, and what does it cost you — in time, stress, or lifestyle.
A career described only by its best day is a brochure. You want the Tuesday.
Page 5
Credentials are one door, not the door
Degrees still matter in licensed fields — medicine, law, engineering. In much of the emerging economy, demonstrated work matters more: a portfolio, a certification, a track record someone can check.
The fastest entry is usually the one where you can show rather than claim.
Page 6
Skills that travel
Specific tools change every few years. What survives is the ability to write clearly, reason with numbers, work with people who disagree with you, and teach yourself something hard without being assigned it.
Build those deliberately and any specific job becomes a choice rather than a trap.
Page 7
Try before you commit
You can sample almost any career cheaply: a short course, a weekend project, a conversation with someone doing the job, a small piece of paid freelance work.
Weeks of sampling can save years of correcting. Curiosity is a research method, not a distraction.
Page 8
Your first move
Pick three roles from the chapters ahead that make you curious. For each, find one real person doing it, one way to try a piece of it, and one measure of whether you enjoyed it.
That is the whole method. The rest of this book is the map: what the work is, what it pays, and how people are getting in.
The sample ends here. The full book continues with the career chapters — what each role does, what it pays, and the honest path in.