Temp : How To Survive & Thrive in the World of Temporary Employment

Author: Deborahann Smith
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ISBN: 087773934X
Publisher: Shambhala (18 January, 1994)
Sales Rank: 646,459
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5

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Rating: 4 out of 5
The sublime within the mundane ...
This offers WAY more than your average career manual. It would be interesting enough to get Deborahann's inside story on the unpredictable world of temping. It's a delightful bonus that she packs the book with hilarious personal anecdotes.

I see Deborahann as a quirky, deeply creative, unpretentious gal who reads almost everything under the sun. She's a Zen Buddhist. She likes movies -- everything from Ingmar Bergman to Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (and one of her chapters on co-worker relations is entitled "Be Excellent To Each Other.")

In short, she's someone you like and trust. She's the girlfriend who can break you up doing a dead-on impersonation of your supervisor.

In this book, she gives valuable advice on everything from managing stress to negotiating a raise to surviving job lulls. She even tackles unusual subjects like how icky first days can be and how you can survive yours with your sense of humor intact. Also, with no defensiveness, she shows how to keep a sense of pride in a society that thinks of temps as flakes and losers.

In a deeper sense, this is Deborahann's theme: there is honor in whatever work you are doing, and the work is always worth doing well. I highly recommend this book -- especially for temps, college students, disciples of the sublime located within the mundane, and anyone curious about the world of work.

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