Day Job: A Workplace Reader for the Restless Age

by Jonathan Baird, Carol M. Allen (Compiler)

It's 9:34 a.m. Do you know where your career is headed? Do you have one? More likely, you'd never call what you do from 9 to 5 a career. You'd call it your day job.

And what if you were given a single day to record it all, to ask the important questions about life and career, to air out your strongest and most private opinions and thoughts-what would you say? That's the question that has been put to customer service rep Mark Thornton. And his answer is Day Job, a darkly comic, high-velocity run through the modern workplace.

Genres: Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1998

Reviews

[Mike · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked his method of inserting quotes from various authors inside boxes.
Clear writing, humorous.
co-worker descriptions:
--deidre: helmet-like Jr League bob gives weird impression of removability
--kevin: private life either corrupt and outlandish or insufferably dull. wife Kay did alll the outgoing recordings for our co. voicemail system; late-nite-dj-type voice---Kay is one woman I'd marry sight-unseen

[Jessa · Rating 2 out of 5]

The supplemental readings were interesting and related but interrupted the flow of the story, which made this a much more difficult read than it had to be. You can see that the writer is talented though, and provides humorous descriptions and stories. My suggestion is to read the story straight through and, when you feel a natural stopping point, go back to read the supplemental readings.

[Marci Stone · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a clever book written by a Gen X aged employee who is restless in his day job and has written (at his day job perhaps?) quite a few creative things about his workplace the people around him in a somewhat cynical attitude.