Self Help and Guidance for Your Career Path
Lessons learned from the hospitality industry
The Drunkard’s Path
You have the ability to make this life about yourself. It starts with your current job and learning to be a more effective employee, the employee that everyone wants to work with. Becoming that employee builds the strong foundation for your career and for your life. It’s time to begin your journey, starting with the fundamentals of what it takes to build a meaningful career, in whatever field you choose.
No matter where you work, you can excel in any job.
“…an inspiring and valuable book that is packed with stories, insights, and practical tips and tools for how to live a productive and fulfilling life doing what you love to do. Barry brings his decades of insight, education, and experience as a restaurateur and entrepreneur to this book and shows us how to live, love, and create in a way that has a positive impact and brings people joy.”
Natalie Susi
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO, PROFESSOR, AND ENTREPRENEUR
Build your career from the foundation up
Learn ideas, practices, and philosophies that will challenge you to create your own path, and one that allows you to take control of your story. Through examples and practical tools, you’ll go through the process, step by step, of how to think like an entrepreneur, and how and why to construct your own narrative.
Whether you are just beginning your career or feeling stuck in the moment in your current one, you can develop the skills you need to become an outstanding employee and create a more valuable you in the future.
Valuable tool for managers and business owners
The Drunkard’s Path is a valuable resource for employers who would like to build a workplace that allows space and provides education for employees to grow. It contains valuable insights on management and communication practices that help to attract and retain the employee who is the right fit for your organization. Purchase this book for your entire team. Use the contact form to inquire about quantity discounts.
“…a fascinating read that encourages newfound and veteran professionals alike to act and speak with intention. Drawing from his own experiences, Barry crafts the perfect recipe to succeed as an employee or boss in any professional setting.”
Megan Feragne
U.S. Fulbright scholar & Bilingual children’s book author
About the Author
As a restauranteur and entrepreneur Barry’s main role is that of a Storyteller. His job has been to create, maintain, and sustain stories that help to make people feel compelled to interact with, as employees and customers, and then to have them to continue to help tell the story. All entrepreneurs are storytellers. They all create and generate a narrative that generates excitement in other people. This translates into a product and/or service in the marketplace. Entrepreneurs are artists who create with words.
Barry is currently President of Green Valley Hospitality and co-owner of 4 restaurants in Northeastern Connecticut. These restaurants are The Vanilla Bean Café in Pomfret, 85 Main in Putnam, Dog Lane Café in Storrs, and Fenton River Grill in Mansfield. Read more>>
“I have enjoyed eating at Jessurun-owned restaurants since their first, The Vanilla Bean Café, opened in 1989. What has kept me coming back through the decades has been a certain personality that infuses them all and undergirds a culture of welcome and excellence. This book by co-owner Barry Jessurun—less a “how to” manual, more a “how come” treatise— blends well-prepped and tested practical wisdom into a delightful philosophical broth that will have you, in equal measure, grinning, taking notes, and coming back for more.”
Brad Davis
poet & customer
Why The Drunkard’s Path?
The Drunkard’s Path is a name given to zig-zag quilt patterns that are difficult to learn, but once achieved, they open a more extensive range of possible designs. You will find that your own life will be much like The Drunkard’s Path. As you wind through the years, you will be constantly exposed to new learning opportunities. If you take on the challenging ones, you will find a wider space of possibilities will be open to you.
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