Synopses & Reviews
Low pay, long hours, bad bosses, awful commutes, obnoxious customers, conniving co-workers—there are as many ways a job can suck as there are people working sucky jobs. No matter the reason you find yourself saddled with a job thats best described as dung, help has arrived.
Crap Job: How to Make the Most of the Job You Hate offers practical advice, creative coping strategies, and much-needed comic relief for surviving the workday.
Like a well-placed plunger, Crap Job can help make the best of a bad situation. This timely guide is packed with practical tips to cope with the slow suffocation of childhood dreams and make the everyday a little less miserable. Perfect for recent grads coming to terms with the soul-crushing realities of the workforce and anyone toiling away in the post-recessionary world of flat pay and underwhelming retirement plans, Crap Job offers suggestions to deal with the daily grind and offers a dose of comedy to balance out the days drama.
Creative types chafing at the confinements of 9-5 employment, passionate people who havent found something they love,” and disillusioned desk workers who find a friend in Michelle Goodmans empathetic, tough-love approach to enduring the struggles of the workday.
About the Author
Michelle Goodman has stocked shelves, scrubbed toilets, bagged groceries, scooped ice cream, parked cars, painted houses, scraped wallpaper, waited tables, answered phones, alphabetized files, cold called customers, entered data, stuffed envelopes, and played admin to an array of dazzlingly bad bosses. Today she is an award-winning journalist and author of two irreverent career guides,
The Anti 9-to-5 Guide and
My So-Called Freelance Life, both published by Seal Press.
Michelles ABC News career column ran for five years, her Seattle Times work-life balance blog for four. Her articles and essays have appeared in dozens of other outlets, including BBC, CNN, The New York Times, Salon, Entrepreneur, VICE, BUST, Bitch, Seattle magazine, and several anthologies. She sits on the board of directors of Lit Crawl Seattle and curates Wage Slaves: Tales from the Grind, a Seattle reading series about work. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with a man, a dog, and a seriously ornery cat.