Job

Author : Emma Healey
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735275010

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Best Young Woman Job Book by Emma Healey Pdf

Wry, inventive, and relentlessly honest, a memoir of trying to make a living without compromising your truth. Emma Healey just wants to be a writer, but that’s more a journey than a job, and the journey isn’t free. As a teenager, she begins her adventures in precarious employment when introduced by her actor/playwright mother to the role of “standardized patient,” performing illness as a living training dummy for medical students. In university, she joins a creative writing program, cultivating a poet’s interest in language while learning lessons about the literary world that have more to do with survival than art. Through her twenties, she writes software manuals for the world’s leading producer of online pornography, masters search engine optimization for a marketing firm run out of a bedroom by two Phish-loving brothers, narrowly escapes death as a research assistant for a television drama, and works the night shift captioning daytime TV. Along the way, as she navigates dating apps, tumultuous relationships, and the evolution of a voice that she is slowly learning to trust, she begins writing personal essays for money—and finds herself embroiled in a content economy that blurs the boundaries between day job and making art even further. Through the stories of several very odd jobs, each related to—but also achingly far from—the job she really wants, poet and essayist Emma Healey creates a unique snapshot of the gig economy that is also a timeless meditation on identity, value, and language. For a writer trying to pay the bills, life can be a work in progress.

Author : C. G. Jung
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781400839131

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Answer to Job by C. G. Jung Pdf

Considered one of Jung's most controversial works, Answer to Job also stands as Jung's most extensive commentary on a biblical text. Here, he confronts the story of the man who challenged God, the man who experienced hell on earth and still did not reject his faith. Job's journey parallels Jung's own experience--as reported in The Red Book: Liber Novus--of descending into the depths of his own unconscious, confronting and reconciling the rejected aspects of his soul. This paperback edition of Jung's classic work includes a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani, Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College London. Described by Shamdasani as "the theology behind The Red Book," Answer to Job examines the symbolic role that theological concepts play in an individual's psychic life.

Author : Walter Isaacson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451648546

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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Pdf

Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.

Author : Leonard S. Kravitz,Kerry M. Olitzky
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532636059

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The Book of Job by Leonard S. Kravitz,Kerry M. Olitzky Pdf

The book of Job is the most challenging--and most engaging--of all the books in the Hebrew Scriptures. It challenges one's faith in the essential goodness of God and humanity. In this volume, Rabbis Kravitz and Olitzky provide an original, modern translation and commentary while also inviting classic rabbinic commentators of the past to provide insight to the text. Along with helping the reader to understand the original Hebrew sources, the authors also strive to answer some of the basic answers of human existence posed by religion: Why is there evil? Why do the good suffer? Why do those who do evil seem to go unpunished? Are acts of goodness rewarded?

Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501143335

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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Pdf

From bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).

Author : Stephen Mitchell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780061847462

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The Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell Pdf

"If Mr. Mitchell gives an eloquent account of the effects of Job's poetry in his introduction, in the translation itself he does even better: he makes those effects come alive. Writing with three insistent beats to the line, and hammering home a succession of boldly defined images, he achieves a rare degree of vehemence and concentration." — John Cross, New York Times The Book of Job pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight; it is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it. Now, The Book of Job has been translated into English by the eminent translator and scholar Stephen Mitchell, whose versions of Rilke, Israeli poetry, and the Tao Te Ching have been widely praised. This is the first time ever that the Hebrew verse of Job has been translated into verse in any language, ancient or modern, and the result is a triumph.

Author : Dawn Rosenberg McKay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781440569555

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The Everything Job Interview Question Book by Dawn Rosenberg McKay Pdf

Outlines the best answers to key job-interview questions, presenting sample responses to frequently asked questions and offering tips on how to handle a critical job interview.

Author : Eva S.
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839753503

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I Came Here to Take Your Job by Eva S. Pdf

Originally from Estonia, this first book by Eva S. describes her years living in London before, during, and after the Brexit referendum.

Author : Dan Bilefsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780393609523

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The Last Job: "The Bad Grandpas" and the Hatton Garden Heist by Dan Bilefsky Pdf

The definitive account of one of the most brazen jewel heists in history. Over Easter weekend 2015, a motley crew of six English thieves, several in their sixties and seventies, couldn’t resist coming out of retirement for one last career-topping heist. Their target: the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit, in the heart of London’s medieval diamond district. “The Firm” included Brian Reader, ringleader and legend in his own mind; Terry Perkins, a tough-as-nails career criminal but also a frail diabetic; Danny Jones, a fitness freak, crime enthusiast, and fabulist; Carl Wood, an extra pair of hands, and definitely more brawn than brains; John “Kenny” Collins, getaway driver, prone to falling asleep on the job; and the mysterious Basil, a red-wigged associate who has only now been identified. Perhaps not the smoothest of criminals—one took a public bus to the scene of the crime; another read Forensics for Dummies in hopes he would learn how to avoid getting caught—they planned the job over fish and chips at their favorite pubs. They were cantankerous and coarse, dubbed the “Bad Grandpas” by British tabloids, and were often as likely to complain about one another as the current state of the country. Still, these analog thieves in a digital age managed to disable a high-security alarm system and drill through twenty inches of reinforced concrete, walking away with a stunning haul of at least $19 million in jewels, gold, diamonds, family heirlooms, and cash. Veteran reporter and former London correspondent for the New York Times Dan Bilefsky draws on unrivaled access to the leading officers on the case at the Flying Squad, the legendary Scotland Yard unit that hunted the gang, as well as notorious criminals from London’s shadowy underworld, to offer a gripping account of how these unassuming criminal masterminds nearly pulled off one of the great heists of the century.

Author : Hugh Ross
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441234322

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Hidden Treasures in the Book of Job (Reasons to Believe) by Hugh Ross Pdf

Arguably the oldest book in the Bible, the book of Job has a surprising amount to say about some of the newest scientific discoveries and controversies. Far from a book that is just about suffering, Job is filled with rich insight into both ancient and modern questions about the formation of the world the difference between animals and humans cosmology dinosaurs and the fossil record how to care for creation and more With careful consideration and exegesis, internationally known astrophysicist and Christian apologist Hugh Ross adds yet another compelling argument to the case for the veracity of the biblical commentary on the history of the universe, Earth, life, and humanity. Hidden Treasures in the Book of Job shows that the Bible is an accurate predictor of scientific discoveries and a trustworthy source of scientific information, and that both the book of Scripture and the book of nature are consistent both internally and externally.

Author : Michael Perry
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 1568986262

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Hand Job by Michael Perry Pdf

'Hand Job' collects groundbreaking work from an international array of some of today's most talented typographers who draw by hand, with graphic designer and hand typographer Michael Perry selecting work representing the full spectrum of design methods and styles.

Author : Paul E. Spector
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000539349

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Job Satisfaction by Paul E. Spector Pdf

Distilling the vast literature on this most frequently studied variable in organizational behavior, Paul E. Spector provides students and professionals with a pithy overview of the research and application of job satisfaction. In addition to discussing the nature of and techniques for assessing job satisfaction, this text summarizes the findings regarding how people feel toward work, including cultural and gender differences in job satisfaction, personal and organizational antecedents, potential consequences, and interventions to improve job satisfaction. Students, researchers, and practitioners will particularly appreciate the extensive list of references and the Job Satisfaction Survey included in the Appendix. This book includes the latest research and new topics including the business case for job satisfaction, customer service, disabled workers, leadership, mental health, organizational climate, virtual work, and work-family issues. Further, paulspector.com features an ongoing series of blog articles, links to assessments mentioned in the book, and other resources on job satisfaction to coincide with this text. This book is ideal for professionals, researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students in industrial and organizational psychology and organizational behavior, as well as in specialized courses on job attitudes or job satisfaction. .

Author : Mark Kermode
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781447230526

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Hatchet Job by Mark Kermode Pdf

The finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' Stephen Fry 'Entertainingly incendiary stuff' Empire A hatchet job isn't just a bad review, it's a total trashing. Mark Kermode is famous for them - Pirates of the Caribbean, Sex and the City 2, the complete works of Michael Bay. Beginning with his favourite hatchet job ever, Mark tells us about the best bad reviews in history, why you have to be willing to tell a director face-to-face their movie sucks, and about the time he apologized to Steven Spielberg for badmouthing his work. But why do we love really bad reviews? Is it so much harder to be positive? And is the Internet ruining how we talk about cinema? The UK's most trusted film critic answers all these questions and more in this hilarious, fascinating and argumentative new book. 'A wry, robust and developed defence of accountable critical voices' Total Film 'Very accessible, entertaining and relevant . . . warmly recommended' Den of Geek

Author : Charles M. Schulz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534498884

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Snoopy on the Job by Charles M. Schulz Pdf

Based on The Snoopy Show episode "Snoopy on the job".

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Employment forecasting
ISBN : PSU:000012509027

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Job Forecasting by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight Pdf