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Please Don't Pick a Sensible Career: how to break out of the queue
A field guide to building a life in the age of AI · Calypso Rose + Clare Hastings
£12.95 Printing September 2026. Pre-orders ship the week it lands, before it's in any shop. The first 50 pre-orders get a free ticket to an OffScript event for an under-25, worth £35.
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Please Don't Pick a Sensible Career book cover: giant blue letters on cream, an orange path winding to a pink burst
What's inside

Ten chapters.
No filler.

One big idea per chapter. One move at the end of each. Plus stories and straight-talking advice from entrepreneurs and thinkers including:

Rory Sutherland
Vice Chairman, Ogilvy
Michael Acton Smith
Co-founder, Calm
Louise Hill
Co-founder, GoHenry
Alana Macfarlane Kempner
Co-founder, The Gut Stuff

No padding. No homework.

01You are not alone
02The entrepreneurial mindset
03Step out of the queue
04The proof move
05Your network is your superpower
06Money is not a dirty word
07Resilience is built, not born
08You're allowed to change your mind
09Optimism is a strategic choice
10Challenges. Do the thing.

Plus Do The Thing: your moves, one per chapter. Find your clues. Make a proof move. Ask for 20 minutes, not a job. Small enough to start today.

The details

The sensible bit.

FormatPaperback
Size229 × 152 mm
Price£12.95
ShippingUK
Written byCalypso Rose + Clare Hastings

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Printing September 2026. Pre-orders ship the week it lands, before it's in any shop. The first 50 pre-orders get a free ticket to an OffScript event for an under-25, worth £35.

£12.95
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Paperback · 229 × 152 mm · Shipping to the UK only
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