Name: Kato's review of The Working Woman's Handbook by Phoebe Lovatt
Item: The Working Woman's Handbook
Rating: 4.5
Author: Kato

Phoebe Lovatt

Want to have an exciting, custom-built career? The Working Woman's Handbook can help you create it. It's the ultimate guide to job satisfaction, filled with practical advice on developing and driving a working life you love. Bursting with actionable tips, this book outlines an agenda for making and managing money, setting goals, and establishing success-oriented routines, with worksheets, exercises, and fool-proof "how-to" sections to help chart your course. From the lowdown on launching your own venture to a bullet-point checklist for an essential self-care regime, it will teach you to manage any dilemmas that crop up, and take the stress out of setting a budget. This no-nonsense manual comes packed with author Phoebe Lovatt's personal insights from her own career as a successful freelance journalist, moderator, and founder of The WW Club, the leading digital resource and global community for working women worldwide. It also includes words of wisdom from various creatives and industry leaders, such as Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth, WAH Nails founder Sharmadean Reid, The Gentlewoman's Editor-in-Chief Penny Martin, and rising fashion designer Sandy Liang. Whether a first-time freelancer, budding businesswoman, or dedicated professional looking to enhance your prospects, The Working Woman's Handbook is a go-to career and lifestyle guide for ambitious young women everywhere.

Ideas, Insights, and Inspirations for a Successful, Self-Made Career

The Working Woman's Handbook

Kato

I love this, just the aesthetics deserve 5 stars. 

Essence, dense, condensed: These are the associations the book gives me again and again. Important subject areas are simply squeezed onto a double-page spread. I don't think it would be a problem to expand the content of the book to triple its size with a few explanations or examples. But my feeling is that this would also have taken away the charm of the book. Unlike many business books that focus on one basic idea, thesis or method and regurgitate that (cough, cough Essentialism), this book covers five areas and summarizes them. From deciding which career path is for me (freelancing, job, startup) to practical topics like budgeting, price negotiation, and time management to the fundamental question of how to balance work & life.

As a result, those who only skim the tips might think they're trivial. Occasionally I agree, e.g. page 73 "How to negotiate": one-sentence tips like "Do stand your ground" or "Don't be afraid to turn down a job if you feel the money isn't right" need a bit more context to cause a mindshift. For the most part, though, I think the book provides a fantastic foundation to have heard a lot of things before and then go from there when it gets down to the nitty gritty.


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