Bait and Switch -- Barbara Book Report

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" As Ehrenreich found, in some case you are your resume, but in other cases the individual is clearly NOT their resume. Instead, looking at what the book calls white-collar life "at its most miserable and precarious" (p. 216), one can only glean that this is clearly not the place for everyone, nor is it the do all end-all of Protestant expectations of actualization. In fact, pining for that perfect corporate job will likely not fulfill many needs because it is a roller-coaster of Machiavellianism, game-playing, extreme selfishness from employers and a purposeful sense of never being good enough, never doing a good enough job, and indeed, keeping the individual feeling that they must continually do better just to maintain -- without consequence to health, family, or indeed, the very actualization that was the point of school and job in the first place. Instead, if there is any lesson in this book, it is that in order to really be happy in life, one must find a balance, a way to intellectually and emotionally stimulate oneself, but still earn the requisite salary to ensure that one's family is able to do more than exist from paycheck to paycheck.

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The best advice from the book might be summed up in something Ehrenreich did not pen, but could have, "Does anyone really think that their tombstone will say, 'Here lies John Doe, He Wishes He Had Spent More Time At Work.'"

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Ehrenreich, B. (October 8, 1989). Interview -- Booknotes. CSPAN. Cited in:

http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/9435-1/Barbara+Ehrenreich.aspx

____. (September 26, 2005). Bait and Switch. The New Yorker. Cited in:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/09/26/050926crbn_brieflynoted3

____. (2005). Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.

New York: Henry Holt.

Press, J. (August 30, 2005). The Book of (Bad) Jobs. The Village Voice. Cited in:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-08-30/books/the-book-of-bad-jobs/.....

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