30 Things To Do When You Turn 30 is a collection of illuminating, instructive, and thought-provoking essays by hip and fascinating achievers for the reader who has or will soon turn thirty. Among the contributors are: Chris Webber, NBA star; Kate KT Tunstall, a popular, two-time Grammy Award nominated singer who has sold over 4 million albums; Timothy Ferriss, author of bestselling book The Four Hour Work Week; Paige Davis, host of Trading Spaces; Mangesh Hattikudur, co-founder of Mental Floss; Douglas Merrill, vice president of Google; Vivek Shah, president of Fortune/Money Digital Publishing; Jen MacNeil, author of the 365/In the New blog; Amy Richards, feminist and author; Teresa Williamson, founder of TangoDiva; Susie Bight, author of the Best American Erotica series.
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Chris Taylor is an award-winning journalist based in New York City. A native of Vancouver, Canada, he was a senior writer with SmartMoney, The Wall Street Journal s personal-finance magazine, and has been published in The Financial Times, Money, Best Life, Esquire, Reader s Digest, and US News & World Report. He has won journalism prizes from the National Press Club, the Deadline Club, and the National Association of Real Estate Editors. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Line Jean-Louis and their son Zachary.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By A. Gschwilm
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I thought this book was going to have some creative ideas about what to do when you are thirty. Yeah, not so much. It is basically a comilation of short essays from a bunch of thirty somethings. Had I known that I would be getting advice on how to live life from a group of my peers, I would not have bought this book. Let's be real here. You are only starting to really "get it" when you turn 30. I will say that the contributors to this book are all successful people. Some of them do "get it" and have very insightful and entertaining essays, but some of them clearly just don't. The Essay by Rachel Sklar was gag worthy! She tells you, in a very condescending way, that "growing up isn't that bad." She then goes on to say that you need to do the following mega important things now that you are a grown-up:Find a designer that flatters you, men need to actually buy a tux (you know..for all those fancy black tie affairs that you will be attending now that you're a grown-up), find jeans that look great on you and buy three pairs of them, learn about wine, and yadda yada yadda. THat may be fine advice for those socialites living in the big cities, but it had absolutely zero relevance to a hard-working, midwestern, country girl. Nope. That essay wasn't worthy of the paper it was printed on. Like I said, there were a few very insightful essays in there that i did take something from. So I guess this book wasn't a complete waste of my time.
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By alynsey
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This was purchased as a gift for my sister's boyfriend who turned 30 this year...and to my surprise, he has actually used the book for some ideas of what to do as he approaches his big milestone! Couldn't ask for a better gift...something he actually found fun, and used!!
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Love it, great ideas.
Recommend for any one who is not sure of career or maybe too sure of their current direction in life at age 30.
Recommend for any one who is not sure of career or maybe too sure of their current direction in life at age 30.
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Published 15 days ago by basSuenist
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30 things to do when you're30.
I bought the book as a present to give to a man who has just celebrated his 30th birthday. He has had a lot of trouble deciding what to do with his life, and I felt that this book... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Arthur Goldschmidt
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Worth reading
This book has excellent essays. It's well worth reading for anyone from teens on up. Good to give as birthday present.
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