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Always Bet On Yourself: How To Ghost The Job Market And Hire Your Own Damn Ass

Wendy Miller

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STOP Looking for a Job. START Building Your Empire. Always Bet On Yourself: How To Ghost The Job Market And Hire Your Own Damn Ass is The Brutally Honest Career Guide for Anyone Over 50 Who's Done Playing by Rules That Don't Work If you're over 50 and still scrolling through job boards at 3 AM, wondering what happened to your career, this book is your intervention. Are you tired of age discrimination in hiring? Fed up with fake job postings and endless applications that lead nowhere?

It's time for you to start ghosting a system that's completely broken. The uncomfortable truth: The job market is rigged...especially against workers over 50. But that might be the best career news you'll hear all year. Finally, a Career Change Book That Tells the Truth

Chapters Include: What The Hell Happened To My Career? Step Away From The Job Board Why Corporate Euphemisms Are Just Gaslighting With Better Branding Why Your Stupidest Ideas Are Your Best Ideas You Are A God, An Unemployed God, But Still Forget all that "follow your passion" advice. This is a battle-tested survival guide for CORPOCALYPSE™ survivors who've weathered dot-com crashes, Y2K, open office plans, thermal paper fax machines, a global pandemic—and are still standing. If you've survived three recessions and 47 different "revolutionary" management philosophies, you're literally indestructible.

Time to start acting like it. This book is for professionals facing: Age discrimination in job searches Long-term unemployment despite decades of experience Career transition anxiety after 50 Job search burnout from endless applications Ageism in hiring practices What You'll Discover Inside: The Job Search Reality Check: Why only 25% of job postings are real jobs How to escape job board addiction designed to keep you scrolling and unemployed The Resume Black Hole explained (and why ATS rejects you for saying "managed" vs "oversaw") Why online job hunting is making you miserable for their profit Transform Your Career After 50 This book helps you:

✓ Embrace the indestructible mindset from surviving every corporate trend ✓ Leverage your "been there, done that" advantage ✓ Build institutional knowledge that can't be Googled ✓ Transform from "I hope someone will hire me" to "Are you worth my time?" ✓ Overcome imposter syndrome and bet on yourself ✓ Create opportunities instead of waiting for permission Perfect For: Professionals over 50 facing age discrimination but ready to fight back Experienced workers tired of being called "too experienced" or "not a culture fit" Anyone ready to monetize their resilience Not For: People wanting gentle encouragement or those not ready for brutal honesty about modern careers. This isn't about finding your passion. It's about finding your power. You're not broken or unemployable. You're a survivor who's weathered every disruption. The same experience that makes you "unemployable" as a staff employee makes you invaluable as a consultant. Warning: Contains strong language, career truth-telling, and zero tolerance for HR BS. Side effects include sudden clarity, unshakeable confidence, and the urge to ghost job boards forever. "The moment you stop desperately searching for jobs is the moment opportunities start finding you."

GenresBusiness & MoneyJob Hunting & CareersJob HuntingBusiness Development & EntrepreneurshipStarting a Business

150 pages

English edition · First published 2025 by Card To Believe Media · ISBN 9781737572398

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