Since graduating high school Brendon Christopher has had
eighty-one jobs.
He decided he wanted to taste life, many lives. He did it
with his job-hopping journey in America. His job
experiences, some good, some bad, are a collection of true
stories about his career choices. He chronicles good
times
and bad times, many bad times. How to pay his rent? How
can he eat? He persevered and tells his
personal accounts.
Some of the most interesting jobs were as a limo driver.
He
got this job by meeting and talking to his next door
neighbor. Funny adventures.. First assignment: Pick up
client, Ed Warding, at LA Airport. He makes a sign with
the instructions and the client's name. As they are
leaving
the airport, he realizes he crumpled the paper with the
clients name and his destination and tossed it under a
car.
His boss, Marv, calls asking if all is ok. It is with
great
imagination that he gets the info on where he is taking
his
client without letting his boss know he "goofed".
Taking the Woo-Tang Clan, to the Las Vegas Convention
Center, was a crazy ride! They were a rap band going to
Vegas for a fashion award given by TV/Radio. This was a
much more complicated assignment but the pay was "tasty."
He worked as a plumber's assistant, loved being a courier,
did not finish the day as a Mall greeter, did not last
much
longer working manually as a mover, and did seven months
as
a floral arranger. He was an impostor in the
marketplace and did not find it difficult to yell at his
boss, walk out and never return.
Mr. Christopher gives a list of don't do's for the first
two
weeks of a job, adding, "co-workers are savages, and the 9
to 5 is a g.d. jungle, and every new employee is a
defenseless cub out there all alone." Follow these hints.
Brandon Christopher writes about his telling journey and
it
is funny and thought provoking. I enjoyed it and you will
too.
From the porn magazine to the moving truck to the dark
sewers of California, Brandon Christopher’s journey in the
American job market is not only absurd, but also full of
wit
and profound observations. He steps out from behind the
driver’s wheel, the cash register, and the office desk to
record the lighter and darker sides of humanity in the
workplace. Christopher’s tale makes even the most mundane
job seem fascinating and the most exciting career appear
hum-drum and hollow. The Job Pirate strips off the façade
of
the average employee to see what is hidden underneath:
“That new employee that you see hanging his vintage
blazer onto the backrest of his swivel chair is me. My
cubicle is right next to yours. I don’t say much, I dine
alone, I drink a lot of coffee, and I know my legal right
to
two cigarettes in an 8-hour workday. And yes, you were
right, I’m not really the Marketing Strategist that I told
the boss I was. But I’m sitting here in this cubicle, and
the resume that got me this job is in my attaché case
right
beside me. It clearly states that I have more than enough
experience to run this company’s entire advertising
department and I’ll be here between three weeks and a
year,
so you better get used to the idea.”
Often hilarious and sometimes profound, Christopher’s
stories take us through the offices, department stores and
kiosks of the West Coast. We ride along with him as he
chauffeurs the famous, the dead and sometimes just their
furniture. Christopher gives us an irreverent inside
glimpse
into the work life of the people we see everyday.
Even though at times he exhibits moral ambiguity, we
find ourselves rooting for him against all the odds
because
we can see our own struggles in his attempts to acclimate.
We can all relate to this story of selling our soul to the
company store and then buying it back for pennies on the
dollar, just to have that one more day of freedom.
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