The Adventures of Johnny Bunko offers practical advice for anyone looking to start a rewarding career. Pink has a knack for teaching in such an entertaining way that you'll forget you are learning. Outrageous, delightful,hard-hitting and informative yet bursting with optimism.
There's never been a career guide like it-the fully illustrated story of a young Everyman just out of college who lands his first job. Johnny Bunko is new to parachute company Boggs Corp., and he stumbles through his early days as a working stiff until a crisis prompts him to find a new job. Step by step he builds a career, illustrating as he does the six core lessons of finding, keeping, and flourishing in satisfying work:
- There is no plan
- Forget about your weaknesses
- Persistence trumps talent
- It's not about you
- Make excellent mistakes
- Leave an imprint Smart, engaging, and insightful,
First-of-its- kind career guide-for a new generation of job seekers.
The Johnny Bunko experiment arrives at a time when business-book publishers, like many others, are contending with readers who have less time to gather information from the printed page. Already, business books have become smaller, designed to fit in a coat pocket and be read during a two-hour plane ride.
“College students are making all kinds of assumptions about their careers that are just wrong,” Pinks says.
So he came up with six lessons: There is no plan. Think strengths, not weaknesses. It’s not about you. Persistence trumps talent. Make excellent mistakes. Leave an imprint. Johnny Bunko doesn’t get more specific than that. The book has no suggestions about networking, writing a resume, or finding an internship. Such information, says Pink, is available on any number of websites.
Here ‘s useful information in an entertaining format that can be read in an hour.
Berfield (2008), ‘Career Advice from a Comic Book’, Business Week, March 2008.
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