Think Your Job Is Bad?

Posted Jan 17, 2006 by Kevin Walker

Updated Jan 18, 2006 at 10:34 AM

Well, it probably is, then. So you might get even more of a kick out of Dan Kiernan’s new book, “The Idler Book of Crap Jobs: 100 Tales of Workplace Hell.” Among the top 100 horrible jobs: junk mail copywriter, garlic grader, pie holemaker, maggot farmer and (uh-oh) journalist. Check it out click here.

Also getting good reviews, but which I have unfortunately not had the time to read, are Louis Sachar’s “Small Steps,” Galt Niederhoffer’s “A Taxonomy of Barnicles” and Sigrid Nunez’s “The Last of Her Kind.” January, I have discovered, is an excellent book month, so get thee to a bookstore and enjoy.