Daniel H. Pink's The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need

Started another computer class tonight and then dozed off early, so now I'm up at 4:38 a.m., listening to Coast to Coast Am....

Earlier, I read Daniel H. Pink's The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need, which is out this year.



It's sort of a 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in manga form, and as such was a bit of fun, but again, like most of these things, not exactly novel in its advice. All of these self-help books feed off each other, often explicitly. For instance, at one point, Pink mentions Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, whose book Flow I recently blogged about.



It's not every psychologist who appears as a cartoon in a manga, but as you can see above, there's Csíkszentmihályi!

Anyway, Bunko is a young (looks about 13, actually) accountant who is one because his father told him to have a plan, go into a field where there are plenty of jobs, like accounting. Only Bunko really wants to be something else, art, etc.... He's very unhappy, and a cute young sort-of genie appears when he opens some magic chopsticks. Her first advice: 1. There is no plan. Eventually, there are six lessons:



Along the way, there are some thoughtful little gems:







Makes sense to me, but probably, if you're going to shell out some bucks for a career book, you need some more specific help--for instance, on interviewing--than what you get here.

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