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THE JOB PIRATE

The Job Pirate, February 2015
by Brandon Christopher

Bleeding Heart
294 pages
ISBN: 0990573206
EAN: 9780990573203
Kindle: B00THNWC5C
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THE JOB PIRATE
Brandon Christopher

Reviewed by Patricia (Pat) Pascale
Posted July 14, 2015

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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.

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SUMMARY

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 faΓ§ade of the average employee to see what is hidden underneath:

β€œThat 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 attachΓ© 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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