12 Jobs in 12 Months
5 Reasons to Buy My New Book (12 Jobs in 12 Months):
- It's funny, interesting and wacky;
- It challenges the "I can't get a job" blues;
- You'll be helping an author, not Ai or a multinational;
- It shows you can get a job despite age, experience or lack of training;
- It's a useful gift for anyone thinking about getting a new job, or travelling the world.
A travel book
Nomad, journalist, aid worker, there is no job that intrepid travel writer Rupert Wolfe Murray won't do.
In this fascinating book Rupert shows that you can always turn your life around.
To drive his theory to the world, when he turned 60, Rupert got 12 different jobs in 12 short months and showed that you're never too old and it's never too late.
Experience the passion and ambition of youth once more and set out on your own path of renewal.
"If you ever feel bored or trapped in your job this is the book for you. Follow Rupert's inquisitive and adventurous spirit and find the confidence to live a life you never thought possible. Only Rupert can make shovelling elephant shit sound like a positive career move. I'm always grateful for his advice 'if it scares and excites it's probably the right thing to do.'" Toby Gough, Theatre Director, Mumbai.
Author Statement:
"Most people my age have settled down, and that's fine if they're happy. But I'm a nomad, journeyman and busker-writer.
"I want to show that you can start again in life -- as long as you have humility and courage.
"As I ran from job to job I kept asking myself: "How can I sustain this for a whole year?"
"I worked in England, Scotland, Wales, India, Romania, Switzerland and Ukraine, and described how I got each job.
"I organised a funeral, published a book, broke the law, shovelled elephant shit and worked as a Christmas postman. I got fired twice and came across some bizarre characters."
Rupert Wolfe Murray, author and YouTuber
From the Foreword
""It’s a refreshing new take on how you can begin to believe that sorting your life out, or breathing fresh life back into your existence needn’t be so hard…
Rupert shows us that you can learn on the job and work for your dinner. The only one stopping you might be you." Steve Harvey, Travel Artist, Bath, UK.
Why I wrote this book?
"I've had cause to justify using the cliché ‘I couldn't put it down’ on very few occasions, and this is one of them. It really is unputdownable - a highly unlikely but irresistible combination of Robert Byron and Hunter S. Thompson.’ - Charles Ramble, Director of Studies in Tibetan History and Philology at the EPHE (Sorbonne), Paris.
Book summary
“Wolfe-Murray’s trick is to deliver stunningly unusual observations deadpan...The descriptions of the rioting in Lhasa – which the author witnessed by accident and parlayed into his first outing as a foreign correspondent – are brilliant, particularly because he gives a compelling eyewitness account without putting his own dramatic experience of danger at the centre of things.” Kevin Sullivan
Feedback
“This is an amazing book and I’m so glad the author lived to tell the tale… it felt like a miracle that he did! It is an almost unbelievable story, consisting of a million almost unbelievable stories – utterly hilarious, or quirky, or hair-raising, or disturbing, and all of them memorable! I find his no-nonsense style of telling very attractive." Gabriella Bullock
“It reads well, with fine touches of humour and a refreshing absence of self-importance...The Tibet section catches well the atmosphere, the spirit, the significance of events at the time. The pen-portraits that he paints of people he met there are sharply drawn, catching our foibles and our dialogue very well. It works.” Robbie Barnett, Professor of Tibetan Studies, Columbia University, NYC.