Your Job as a Source of Topics
An obvious but perhaps overlooked place to find a good topic for a book is your job and other people’s jobs. There are thousands of different occupations and each has the potential for a book. The nice thing about this is that whatever occupation you have there are likely thousands of others that have the same occupation that could benefit from your experience or any other information you can give them to improve their quality of life on the job. Some occupations will be easy to find others in the same occupation so you will be able to offer your book to them for sale. Perhaps there is information from your job that would be valuable to the general public. It could be one aspect from your work experience – you are a plumber, could you offer advice to homeowners to do their own plumber? If you are an accountant, offer advice to help people manage their own finances. A Chef – put a cookbook together.
If you’re a waiter and make good tips, perhaps you can share your tips and tricks on how others can get good tips as well. Doctors, lawyers, managers, computer specialists and more all have something you can offer to someone. Take inventory of your job and what you might be able to take from it to add value to others in the same occupation, or others in the general public. Take a look at the Occupational Outlook Handbook in your library for detailed information about some of the occupations that make up some 60% of the US Economy. You can read and search the Occupational Outlook Handbook online at http://www.bls.gov/oco. There you can find average salaries, description of work, working conditions, job outlook, related occupations and more.