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The Chaotic Girls Guide to Being Utterly Unemployable
What happens when you're too weird for corporate life but too ambitious for mediocrity?
This is the memoir of a woman who faked her way into a London legal role with a CV so audacious it deserved its own exhibition, got a D for employability, and spent the next two decades proving that being utterly unemployable might be the best qualification of all.
From retraining broken racehorses (that mostly broke her boyfriend), to nearly becoming a poultry magnate fuelled by childhood Roald Dahl fantasies, to discovering that shame is the only thing actually holding you back, this is the chaotic, honest story of what it means to refuse the machinery of conventional success.
If you've ever struggled with imposter syndrome, changed careers more times than you can count, or felt like you're failing at being a proper grown-up, this book is your permission slip. It's for the entrepreneurs who can't stick to one business model, the creatives who've tried seventeen different things, the women who've been called "too much" their entire lives and are finally ready to own it.
This isn't another productivity manifesto or self-help guide promising you'll scale to seven figures by Tuesday. It's a funny, brutally honest account of building a life and business on your own terms, even when those terms look nothing like anyone else's definition of success. From corporate disasters to online business pivots, from grief and breakdown to finding freedom in the label "unemployable," this memoir covers the messy truth about female entrepreneurship, self-employment, and choosing authenticity over achievement.
No hustle culture manifestos. No twelve-month millionaire promises. Just whimsy, horses, questionable decisions, and the stubborn belief that being "too much" for traditional employment is permission to build something brilliantly human instead.
Business is art. Your art. And nobody gets to tell you you're doing it wrong.
Perfect for fans of memoirs about overcoming self-doubt, finding your authentic voice, and building unconventional careers outside traditional employment.
( multiple career implosions, straw falling out of knickers at networking events, and absolutely zero apologies for any of it.)
This is the memoir of a woman who faked her way into a London legal role with a CV so audacious it deserved its own exhibition, got a D for employability, and spent the next two decades proving that being utterly unemployable might be the best qualification of all.
From retraining broken racehorses (that mostly broke her boyfriend), to nearly becoming a poultry magnate fuelled by childhood Roald Dahl fantasies, to discovering that shame is the only thing actually holding you back, this is the chaotic, honest story of what it means to refuse the machinery of conventional success.
If you've ever struggled with imposter syndrome, changed careers more times than you can count, or felt like you're failing at being a proper grown-up, this book is your permission slip. It's for the entrepreneurs who can't stick to one business model, the creatives who've tried seventeen different things, the women who've been called "too much" their entire lives and are finally ready to own it.
This isn't another productivity manifesto or self-help guide promising you'll scale to seven figures by Tuesday. It's a funny, brutally honest account of building a life and business on your own terms, even when those terms look nothing like anyone else's definition of success. From corporate disasters to online business pivots, from grief and breakdown to finding freedom in the label "unemployable," this memoir covers the messy truth about female entrepreneurship, self-employment, and choosing authenticity over achievement.
No hustle culture manifestos. No twelve-month millionaire promises. Just whimsy, horses, questionable decisions, and the stubborn belief that being "too much" for traditional employment is permission to build something brilliantly human instead.
Business is art. Your art. And nobody gets to tell you you're doing it wrong.
Perfect for fans of memoirs about overcoming self-doubt, finding your authentic voice, and building unconventional careers outside traditional employment.
( multiple career implosions, straw falling out of knickers at networking events, and absolutely zero apologies for any of it.)
176 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 22, 2025
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