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Job Hopper.


Job Hopper

Ayun Halliday Ayun Halliday is the chief primatologist of the long-running zine The East Village Inky and the author of four self-mocking memoirs: The Big Rumpus, No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late, Job Hopper and  

Seal Press/Avalon Publishing Group

1400 65th St, #250, Emeryville, CA 94608

www.sealpress.com

1580051308 $14.95 1-800-788-3123

As an aspiring actress author Ayun Halliday wished to keep her business commitments and work life flexible: her Job Hopper: The Checkered check·ered  
adj.
1. Divided into squares.

2. Marked by light and dark patches; diversified in color.

3. Marked by great changes or shifts in fortune: a checkered career.
 Career Of A Down-market Dilettante dil·et·tante  
n. pl. dil·et·tantes also dil·et·tan·ti
1. A dabbler in an art or a field of knowledge. See Synonyms at amateur.

2. A lover of the fine arts; a connoisseur.

adj.
 provides both a funny and thought-provoking review of these many jobs which avoided regular paychecks, hard work, and a dress code. This could have appeared under 'humor', but any involved in business and the work world will especially appreciate Halliday's humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , and will find Job Hopper packed with funny realism.
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Title Annotation:Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante
Publication:The Bookwatch
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Date:Nov 1, 2005
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