Download or read book A Career Guide to Your Job in Hell written by Scott S Phillips and published by Frantic Tentacles Press. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nine entries--seven fictional and two nonfiction--give humorous to horrific glimpses at jobs no one would ever want. The fiction ranges from horror to science fiction, whimsical to horrendous while the nonfiction stories are light in tone.

Download or read book What s that Job and how the Hell Do I Get It written by David J. Rosen and published by Crown Business. This book was released on 2008 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By blending his comic voice with exhaustive research, David J. Rosen has compiled a valuable, go-to, up-to-date directory of more than 50 of the world's most desirable jobs, from A&R executive to fashion designer.

Download or read book Crap Jobs written by Dan Kieran and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quick -- what's the worst, most mind-numbing, humiliating, horrendous, horrific job you can think of? They're all here. The worst jobs in the world. Firsthand accounts of one hundred horrible jobs guaranteed to make you groan, laugh, and maybe, just maybe help you feel a teensy bit better about your own place in the rat race. Painstakingly assembled by the geniuses behind the British humor magazine The Idler, this collection includes the gloriously gory details of such occupations as: hospital launderette, gas station worker, weed sprayer, bank teller, janitor's assistant, and telemarketer. It's a hilarious romp through the stinky cesspool of employment hell, with helpful commentary from those who speak of crap jobs from hard-won personal experience. So curl up with this guide and be grateful for the job you have...or grab the want ads now!

Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Download or read book The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People Third Edition written by Carol Eikleberry and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to stifle your creative impulses to pay the bills. For anyone who's ever been told, "Don't quit your day job," career counselor Carol Eikleberry is here to say, "Pursue your dreams!" Now in its third edition, her inspiring guide provides knowledgeable career guidance, real-life success stories, and eye-opening self-evaluation tools to help artistic individuals figure out how to remain different, unconventional, and hard-to-categorize while finding work they love. The revised third edition of the popular guide for offbeat individuals seeking work that suits their unique skills, talents, and passions. Updated throughout, including new inspiration and tips for keeping a creative job notebook. Descriptions of more than 270 creative jobs, from the mainstream (architect, Web designer) to the unexpected (crossword-puzzle maker, police sketch artist). Previous editions have sold more than 60,000 copies.Reviews“What a great manual for young rebels and older freethinkers who are plotting their next career move.”—Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition.

Download or read book The I Hate My Job Handbook written by Ellen Tien and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1996 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Does the very mention of your boss's name make your left eye twitch uncontrollably? Does the clock seem to move with the speed of Continental Drift between the hours of 9 to 5? Do your friends and family put their hands over their ears and sing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" whenever you start to complain about office anger? If you answered yes to any of the above, then you are a charter member of the I-hate-my-job club." "But before you punch yourself out, be assured that there are ways to lower your work-misery index. With the help of two or three (hundred) war-scarred employees and numerous career experts, authors Ellen Tien and Valerie Frankel deliver you from office hell. You'll find practical guidelines and ingenious strategies to lessen the pain and lighten the load, including: How to deal with your fearful leader - the seven most common (not to mention frustrating) managerial types, from "Mr. Right-and-Don't-You-Forget-It" to "Sybil;" The smartest ways to play office politics without feeling like a total sleaze - plugging into the grapevine, persuading your colleagues to dish, kissing up without losing your lunch; Quizzes, surveys, and clever ploys for the corporately challenged to get you through the daily grind; and a blueprint to engineering your own firing, complete with a tidy severance package and a glowing recommendation letter - no kidding!" "Plus true tales of sweet revenge! Just desserts are right around the corner...."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book God of War II written by Robert E. Vardeman and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the majesty and mayhem of Greek mythology springs to life once more in the powerful second novel based on the bestselling and critically acclaimed God of War® franchise. Once the mighty warrior Kratos was a slave to the gods, bound to do their savage bidding. After destroying Ares, the God of War, Kratos was granted his freedom by Zeus—and even given the ousted god’s throne on Olympus. But the other gods of the pantheon didn’t take kindly to Kratos’s ascension and, in turn, conspired against him. Banished, Kratos must ally himself with the despised Titans, ancient enemies of the Olympians, in order to take revenge and silence the nightmares that haunt him. God of War II takes the videogame’s action to electrifying new heights, and adds ever more fascinating layers to the larger-than-life tale of Kratos.

Download or read book Resumes from Hell written by Jon Reed and published by eCruiting Alternatives, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illustrated "how-not-to," former recruiters Reed and Meyers open up their own joke files, and share highlights from the worst--and funniest--resumes they ever received.

Download or read book Straight Outta Tombstone written by David Boop and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of the Weird Wild West. Top authors take on the classic western, with a weird twist. Includes new stories by Larry Correia and Jim Butcher! Come visit the Old West, the land where gang initiations, ride-by shootings and territory disputes got their start. But these tales aren’t the ones your grandpappy spun around a campfire, unless he spoke of soul-sucking ghosts, steam-powered demons and wayward aliens. Here then are seventeen stories that breathe new life in the Old West. Among them: Larry Correia explores the roots of his best-selling Monster Hunter International series in "Bubba Shackleford’s Professional Monster Killers." Jim Butcher reveals the origin of one of the Dresden Files' most popular characters in "Fistful of Warlock." And Kevin J. Anderson's Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., finds himself in a showdown in "High Midnight." Plus stories from Alan Dean Foster, Sarah A. Hoyt, Jody Lynn Nye, Michael A. Stackpole, and many more. This is a new Old West and you’ll be lucky to get outta town alive! Contributors: David Boop Larry Correia Jody Lynn Nye Sam Knight Robert E. Vardeman Phil Foglio Nicole Kurtz Michael A. Stackpole Bryan Thomas Schmidt & Ken Scholes Maurice Broaddus Sarah A. Hoyt Alan Dean Foster David Lee Summers Kevin J. Anderson Naomi Brett Rourke Peter J. Wacks Jim Butcher **

Download or read book Escape from Corporate America A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams written by and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Put Your Science to Work written by Peter S. Fiske and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series. Whether you are a science undergraduate or graduate student, post-doc or senior scientist, you need practical career development advice. Put Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists can help you explore all your options and develop dynamite strategies for landing the job of your dreams. Completely revised and updated from the best-selling To Boldly Go: A Practical Career Guide for Scientists, this second edition offers expert help from networking to negotiating a job offer. This is the book you need to start moving your career in the right direction.

Download or read book How to Spot a Good Boss before You Take the Job written by A. Z Stan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insider secrets from a Headhunter and Career Coach; the insider guide of questions to use to uncover the good from the bad, or the better ones. Little do we realise, the major factor that determines our career success and long term happiness in our jobs is the boss we work for -- the person who can propel you to achieve your best or hold you back in mediocrity, the person who determines your salary, bonus, promotion, career development, your day-to-day environment at work, even the extent of your enjoyment of work and worklife. Stan, headhunter and career coach, tells you how to check on a prospective boss. If you're thinking of changing jobs because you can't stand your boss anymore, arm yourself with this book when you go for your interviews. You never have to work for the boss-from-hell ever again. If you are already working for one, see my book -- How to Manage the Boss-from-Hell

Download or read book The Explosexuawesome Career Guide written by Mose Hayward and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: explosexuawesome: adj. An eye-bursting, skull-incinerating, kitty-consternating brand of cool. You know, the type of job we all want. Author Mose Hayward will have you laughing all the way to a new career with The Explosexuawesome Career Guide. Yes, there are actual people who are paid to blow up yachts, taste ice cream, and stand around nightclubs looking cool. How does one go about landing such jobs? What are the qualifications? And more important, how much does one get paid? These questions and many more are hilariously answered in Mose Hayward's The Explosexuawesome Career Guide. Exposing all the cool careers your guidance counselor never mentioned, The Explosexuawesome Career Guide is a perfect (and totally necessary) gift for all recent graduates. Weird, bizarre, and unusual but totally awesome jobs are out there for the taking. Author Hayward has sought out holders of these most outlandish, one-in-a-million jobs, and interviewed them to discover crucial information, such as how they got hired and what they do all day. With Hayward's insightful interviews, the reader gets hilarious step-by-step instructions on how they, too, can achieve these cool-yet-odd positions. Each career is illustrated by the comic art of Chris Stangl. This outlandish parody of career guidebooks is sure to entertain, whether or not you're in the market for a new career.

Download or read book The Career Change Guide written by Rachel Schofield and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what you really want from work - and how to get there - with this empowering, practical guide from expert career coach Rachel Schofield AS SEEN IN GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST SELF-HELP BOOKS OF 2023 'A doable plan to make changes that'll stick. This is the only book you need to take the leap' STYLIST Are you dreaming of a new career? Or do you just want more out of your job? Either way, The Career Change Guide ensures that work works for you . . . __________ This empowering, practical guide takes the confusion, fear and indecision out of career change. Whether making small adjustments or life-changing moves, it provides simple, achievable steps to turn your dreams into reality. The Career Change Guide will help you investigate your skills as well as discover your drives, interests and inspirations. It will take you on a structured five step journey. . . · Preparing · Reflecting · Imagining & Designing · Taking Action · Keeping Going · . . . to lead you to the job of your dreams. You'll learn to . . . - Be clear about who you are and the work and life you want - Devise and explore career ideas - Tackle self-doubt and build confidence - Design an action plan for change The Career Change Guide is your first step to a better career and a happier life. So enough procrastination. . . are we doing this, or aren't we?

Download or read book How to Work Without Losing Your Mind written by Cate Sevilla and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Genuinely empowering' Daisy Buchanan 'An invaluable guide to surviving professional life' Viv Groskop 'Comforting during these uncertain times' Yomi Adegoke Award-winning journalist and editor-in-chief Cate Sevilla has survived the messy, stressy and sometimes bizarre world of work - just. In How to Work Without Losing Your Mind, she gives an unflinchingly honest account of the bad bosses, the time spent crying in work loos, the hell and humiliation of her working life but, most importantly, she reveals the solid self-belief, the sage advice and the hard-won lessons that got her through. Filled with humour, wit and supportive words, this book is your essential guide to fixing your relationship with your work. Press it into the hands of every womxn who is sinking in a toxic work environment, battling burnout, recovering from redundancy or trying to find the right career fit. 'Entertaining and practical; moving and funny; a helping hand from someone who's been through it' Emma Gannon, Sunday Times bestselling author

Download or read book A Survival Guide to Managing Employees from Hell written by Gini Graham Scott and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All managers get saddled with "problem" employees from time to time; what sets great managers apart is how they deal with them. Drawing from real-life stories, this helpful and humorous guide provides readers with practical advice for handling a wide range of difficult types, including: * The Impossible "I"s: Incompetents, Idiots, and Imbeciles -- clueless employees who simply don't know what they're doing * The Bull in the Office China Shop -- the frequently angry worker ready to confront anyone and everyone * The Party-Time Performer -- the employee who, although great with people, constantly turns work-time into fun-time * I've Got a Problem -- employees whose work is compromised by any of a range of personal demons, from drug and alcohol problems to emotional issues From whiners and wastrels to the needy and nefarious, this book gives readers the tools they need to handle any type of difficult employee.

Download or read book Escape from Corporate America written by Pamela Skillings and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your corporate career leave you stressed out, burned out, or just plain bummed out? You’re not alone. The good news is that there’s a way out–and you’re holding it. Written by career expert and corporate escapee Pamela Skillings, Escape from Corporate America inspires the cubicle-bound and the corner-office-cornered to break free and create the career of their dreams–without going broke. With no-nonsense advice and unflagging humor, Skillings shows you how to • assess your job’s “suck” factor–from terminal boredom to boss from hell • identify your true calling–brainstorm fantasy careers and test-drive your dream jobs • develop your Escape Plan–set goals, figure out your timing, and evaluate your finances and health insurance options • find jobs that don’t bite–entrepreneurial corporate environments, energetic start-ups, the nonprofit sector, and flexible work options • be your own boss–explore entrepreneurship and freelancing, assemble an advisory team, and start a business while you collect a paycheck • follow your creative dreams–learn how to make time for your artistic passion and develop a plan to quit your day job • overcome any obstacle–deal with fear, doubt, negative people, and other bumps along the road Plus, Skillings shares success stories from dozens of corporate escape artists, including celebrity TV chef Andrea Beaman, Cranium CEO Richard Tait, and many others. Full of practical strategies and fun-to-follow exercises, Escape from Corporate America will help disgruntled office workers everywhere find more meaningful, fulfilling careers.