文档介绍：GOODBYE CAREER, HELLO ESS
Contents
Father's Footsteps
Adventures in the Valley
In Apple's Core
Time Out

If you want to land the job of your dreams - even if you want to e a CEO - rid yourself of raw ambition. Avoid promotions that make perfect sense. Accept work based on friendship alone. Trust you gut. Then watch what happens: prosperity of the heart, soul, and - yes - the wallet.
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BY CONVENTIONAL STANDARDS, my resume is a disaster panies in 25 years, not to mention a crazy quilt of jobs: community development manager, music promoter, corporate lawyer, CFO at a technology start-up, and chief executive at a video pany, just to name a few. I zigged, then I zagged, then I zigged some more. By my resume alone, no one should hire me. Except that these days, plenty panies would. And they do. At last, my "noncareer" career makes perfect sense-to them and to me.
Right now, I'm a "virtual CEO." That's a job title that was cooked up for my business card two years ago to describe my latest incarnation. I work with flesh-and-blood CEOs, mainly of Silicon Valley start-ups, to set strategy, raise money, and put a anization together very quickly. I work with five or panies at a time, and I'm paid largely with equity. That way, everyone can be sure that I'm earning my keep. So far, being a virtual CEO has been a blast-fun, exciting, interesting. Everything you could want in a job.
But how did I get here? By not having a career. Now, that wasn't intentional. Like every other ambitious, Ivy League-educated baby boomer, I set out to have a career. I longed to impress friends, relatives, and former roommates with my titles and authority. I craved the chance to march up a corporate ladder-any corporate ladder at all. And I tried, I really did. But I just couldn't. My whole life, I have been constitutionally unable to play the career game by its rules. So I ended up following another route: taking jobs that, one after another, made me happy. Jobs that spark