"When are you going to get a real job?"Will Leonard heard this question for eighteen years. From fishing cutlery out of restaurant drains in Brisbane to running nightclubs in Brighton where the cocaine budget exceeded marketing. From Dubai's passport hierarchy to Singapore's corporate towers. He collected titles, air miles, and the growing suspicion that climbing the ladder just meant you could see how pointless the view was.The irony? Once he finally got a "real job" was when he got made redundant.Turns out that was the best thing that ever happened to him.The employment contract is dead. AI is eating execution jobs for breakfast. And the fractional economy-where you work for multiple companies instead of giving your life to one-has doubled in the last two years. Most people are panicking.But the skills this new economy actually requires? Reading situations without a playbook. Building solutions with nothing. Staying functional when everything's on fire.Hospitality workers have been doing that for generations. They just never got credit for it.Part memoir, part framework-this book connects eighteen years of chaos to the career that finally made sense.This book is for: Anyone stuck in the gap between who they're supposed to be and who they actually are. Hospitality workers tired of the question. Executives watching their industries shift underneath them. Anyone who suspects the old rules stopped working but doesn't know what comes next.You're not lost. You just haven't connected the dots yet.