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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