What Next? Contest: Recession Book - August 7, 2009

last updated 8 January 2015

Click here for results of last week's What Next? Contest: Elite Games

Results: We asked you to predict the name of the next brutally honest self-help book for the unemployed and it all boiled down to: What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting A Paycheck. Think Outside the Box (Get a Tent!). So You Think You Can Grovel? Poor Dad, Poor Dad. Buddy Can You Spare a Spleen? And:

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SECOND PRIZE: The Zero Hour Workweek

James Lister Smith, Mill Valley, CA

THIRD PRIZE: Chicken Soup Kitchen for the Unemployed Soul

Jason Kahn, Ann Arbor, MI (and others, similar)

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