We spend most of our waking lives at work-in occupations often
chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask
ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
"
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" is an exploration of the joys
and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully evoking what other
people wake up to do each day-and night-to make the frenzied
contemporary world function. With a philosophical eye and his
signature combination of wit and wisdom, Alain de Botton leads us
on a journey around a deliberately eclectic range of occupations,
from rocket science to biscuit manufacture, accountancy to art-in
search of what make jobs either fulfilling or soul-destroying.
Along the way he tries to answer some of the most urgent questions
we can ask about work: Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable?
What is its meaning? And why do we daily exhaust not only ourselves
but also the planet? Characteristically lucid, witty and inventive,
Alain de Botton's "song for occupations" is a celebration and
exploration of an aspect of life which is all too often ignored and
a book that shines a revealing light on the essential meaning of
work in our lives.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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