Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
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Editor: John BoweEditor: Marisa Bowe
Editor: Sabin Streeter
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-08-21
ISBN: 0609807072
Number of pages: 688
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Book Review: A Must Read!
Summary: 5 Stars
An engrossing and insightful book, with first-person accounts of what it's like to work in more than a hundred different job categories - from ambulance chaser to street walker, from psychiatrist to mortician, from lobbyist to commercial fisherman, from CEO to clutter consultant, and more.
Not only is it fascinating, sometimes eye-opening personal reading, but because it provides such rich detail about what the job entails, what it's like to do it every day, what it took to get the job, whether people want to quit or stay and why, it should also be in every high school library, every vocational guidance center, every public library! There is no better way to learn what a job involves than hearing it directly from someone on the job, and "Gig" offers an enjoyable, accessible, easy way to find out.
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