Side Adventure

Plenty of people sense they could be doing more with their talents, yet circumstances often keep them in a steady job that pays the bills but leaves their ambitions unmet. Artin Nazarian knows this tension well. Over nearly twenty years he raised more than $4 million for startup ventures while climbing the corporate ladder at Walt Disney Studios, becoming an executive before turning 30. Drawing on both his setbacks and his wins, he offers guidance grounded in that lived experience.

The book is organized around six aims: finding the inspiration to pursue your career goals, using your current job to build skills beyond what your role requires, adding enough value at your company to earn promotions, judging when your finances can support a side venture, carrying an idea from its first spark to a finished product on the market, and finding fulfillment through a path that departs from convention.

It is written for aspiring founders who must keep a day job, have decided against an expensive MBA, or lack a technical background or useful connections. Nazarian presents his own unorthodox approach to shaping his career and seeking deeper satisfaction as a model readers can adapt. The book also treats turning an idea into reality as a journey worth taking.