Nine Lives: From Stripper to Schoolteacher : My Year-Long Odyssey in the Workplace
An uncensored account of one woman's experiences as a high-school math teacher, rock band pyrotechnician, rape victim counselor, Bourbon Street stripper, and five other professions, chronicles a year-long and coast-to-coast journey
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Have you ever wondered what it feels like to stage-dive onto a crowd of screaming, frenzied rock fans? what a stripper thinks about while grinning middle-aged men stuff dollar bills into her G-string? or who writes those inane toothpaste commercials that make your fingers itch for the remote control?Lynn Snowden wondered. And then, unlike many of us, she got up and did something about it - she took nine widely different jobs during the course of a year and got a wide-angle view of the American workplace. From white collar to blue collar, from the east coast to the west, each new job held its own unique challenges. In one year, Snowden worked as a pyrotechnician for the rock band Skid Row, a substitute school-teacher, a stripper, a housewife, a publicist to the stars, a rape counselor, a cocktail waitress, a copywriter for an advertising agency, and a factory worker making chocolate dinosaurs.She vacuumed. She blew things up. She took drink orders from cheap tourists. She graded math papers. Through it all, Snowden maintained her good humor, emerging unscathed to write this witty and insightful account of what others simply observe or take for granted. The result is a lively, hilarious blend of rock stars and ad executives, of classrooms and casinos; of frustration, determination, and, ultimately, the satisfaction of a job well done. This book is for the daydreamer in all of us, the part of us that goes to the same job every day and the same home every night, all the while wondering "What if...?" Well, now we know.
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