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Cargando... A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Rememberpor Iain Levison
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. C'est un grand livre, car bien écrit, bien vécu et éclairant. I Levison a beaucoup d'esprit, mais on ne devrait pas en rire... ( ) Iain Levison a souhaité apporter son propre témoignage sur ce à quoi peut ressembler la vie d'un diplômé de lettres aux Etats-Unis, dans sa course aussi infernale qu'infinie pour décrocher un emploi. L'occasion de déployer son talent de narrateur pour les situations cocasses et absurdes dans ce petit livre débordant d'humour et d'énergie. Et de démonter pièce par pièce le fameux American Dream qui n'est plus qu'un rêve fumeux sans objet...! This was a fun, quick read. Exactly what I was looking for to counter-balance the dense, serious books I've been reading. Although, I believe the job to be mis-named. I certainly do not recall him actually mentioning 42 different jobs...and I guess it kind of bothers me that it is in the title. He could have just as simply titled it, "A Memior of Jobs I've Quit, Been Fired From, and Some I Can't Remember" No need for numbers that will become inconsequential, right? There's not much I can say about the book except that it was a fun read about a guy talking about all of the crappy jobs that are out there. This was a fun, quick read. Exactly what I was looking for to counter-balance the dense, serious books I've been reading. Although, I believe the job to be mis-named. I certainly do not recall him actually mentioning 42 different jobs...and I guess it kind of bothers me that it is in the title. He could have just as simply titled it, "A Memior of Jobs I've Quit, Been Fired From, and Some I Can't Remember" No need for numbers that will become inconsequential, right? There's not much I can say about the book except that it was a fun read about a guy talking about all of the crappy jobs that are out there. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A "bracing, hilarious and dead on" account of a college graduate's chronic underemployment (The New York Times Book Review). In ten years, Iain Levison has lived in six states and worked at forty-two jobs, from fish cutter in Alaska to furniture mover in North Carolina, film-set gopher, oil deliveryman, truck driver, and crab fisherman. He quit thirty of them, got fired from nine, and has difficulty remembering the other three. Whatever could go wrong often did, hilariously. A Working Stiff's Manifesto is a funny book about the not-so-funny experience of dead-end jobs--the real thing, written not by a high-priced journalist disguised as a counter clerk, but by a genuine wage-dependent, hand-to-mouth working stiff, too well-off for welfare yet too broke to fit a consumer demographic. He works to keep his car running to get back and forth from work. He works to get by and get back to square one for the next day's labors. And in this book, he finally gets some use out of the forty thousand he blew on his English degree--providing an "entertaining, unusual mix of autobiography and social commentary [from] a sharp-eyed, impassioned critic of the American workplace" (Publishers Weekly). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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