Future Millionaire: A Young Person’s Step-by-Step Guide to Making WEALTH Inevitable

Rodgers, Rachel. Future Millionaire: A Young Person’s Step-by-Step Guide to Making WEALTH Inevitable. 2025. 208p. ISBN 9780310158110.

Future Millionaire is a motivational guide for young adults, asserting that anyone can become a millionaire by adopting the right mindset and financial habits. Drawing on insights from psychology and neuroscience, the book provides practical strategies to challenge limiting beliefs and take deliberate action towards achieving financial aspirations. Building wealth isn't just about money, but about enabling dreams and maximizing one's potential for personal growth and career success.

Having overcome her own experiences with financial hardship to build an eight-figure business, the author shares her journey and empowers readers to transform their own futures. Future Millionaire demystifies financial concepts often omitted from school curricula, covering essential topics like budgeting, debt management, and investing. Beyond practical advice, readers are encouraged to cultivate a "millionaire mindset" that includes healthy boundaries and using wealth to support social causes, ultimately challenging systemic inequities and making a positive impact on the world.

The Num3rati

Baker, Stephen. The Num3rati. 2008. 244p. ISBN 9780618784608. 

Our world revolves around data. We keep track of the number of steps we take on a daily basis. We record the books we read. We shop online. We follow the news, partake of social media, and perform searches for information as varied as there are people. All of these activities create bits of data that are exploited by companies and algorithms to influence what we view, how we vote, and even the way we live. Data has become an industry, with players like Google and Facebook, but also the U.S. government and countless entities attempting to understand everything about us. Whereas some hope to deliver better products and line their pockets, governments hope to prevent future terrorist acts like September 11, 2001.

Through it all, all of these players are losing sight that as they quantify and turn people into numbers, and as they understand us better than we understand ourselves, we all lose an element of privacy. Numerati, people who control numbers, have infiltrated businesses and governments to devise ever more sophisticated way to analyze and understand human beings, granulating data in such a way that one's preferences can be used to predict what we will do next. As the dawn of the data age turns into morning, the mathematical modeling of our behaviors continues unabated, for better, and for worse.

Choosing a Career in Hotels, Motels, and Resorts

 Rue, Nancy N. Choosing a Career in Hotels, Motels, and Resorts. Part of The World of Work series. 1999. 64p. ISBN 0-8239-2999-X. Available at 647.94 RUE on the library shelves.

Vacations are always fun. You get to stay somewhere else, and experience a new place. Most often than not, people end up sleeping at hotels or motels. What goes into making a hotel run? There are many career opportunities available in the hospitality industry, from front line workers like the valets who park your vehicle, the bellhop who helps you with your luggage, the concierge who provides you with advice and services, the front desk employees who welcome you and process your stay, the maids who clean the room, the food service employees who prepare and deliver the meals, and the maintenance workers who keep the whole structure humming along nicely.

Hotels are dynamic places to work, with the possibility of quick advancement and many roles to fill. Those who enjoy working with the public will find a home in the front office. Those who enjoy number or working behind the scene can staff the back office, where accountants, human resources, security, conventions, and marketing make the business run efficiently.

Finally there are those folks who are more interested in opening their own lodgings, or purchasing an existing business. Challenges exist here too, from the daily contact with the customers to having to work every day, but the work always being different. Ultimately, the hotel business is fast paced, and is continually adapting to trends. It's a good career for individuals who enjoy the public and who are looking for a fast-paced setting.