Description

We spend most of our waking lives at work—in professions most frequently selected by our unskilled younger faces. And however we seldom ask ourselves how we got there or what our careers imply to us. The Sorrows and Delights of Work is definitely an exploration of the challenges and wonders of the current office, superbly discovering what others awaken to complete our frenzied world function is made by each day—and night—to. Having a philosophical attention and his trademark mixture of humor and knowledge, Alain de Botton brings us on a trip around a diverse selection of professions, from rocket scientist to cookie producer, from accountant to artist—in research of why is careers possibly soul destroying or satisfying.