What autobiographical account best represents your job?
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What autobiographical account best represents your job?
Antony Bourdain wrote the excellent Kitchen Confidential about his experiences as a chef and Atul Gawande wrote Complications about his experiences as a surgeon. Both of these books were fascinating. So what autobiographical account best depicts your job?
Antony Bourdain wrote the excellent Kitchen Confidential about his experiences as a chef and Atul Gawande wrote Complications about his experiences as a surgeon. Both of these books were fascinating. So what autobiographical account best depicts your job?
Wonderboys.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 4:14 PM on December 8, 2008
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 4:14 PM on December 8, 2008
When/If I retire, I hope I will have been as good as Teacher Man.
posted by TDIpod at 4:33 PM on December 8, 2008
posted by TDIpod at 4:33 PM on December 8, 2008
Microserfs. Without the interesting stuff in the second half of the book.
posted by GuyZero at 4:56 PM on December 8, 2008
posted by GuyZero at 4:56 PM on December 8, 2008
I Lost Everything In The Post-Natal Depression, by Erma Bombeck.
posted by padraigin at 5:02 PM on December 8, 2008
posted by padraigin at 5:02 PM on December 8, 2008
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin LeFevre aka Jesse Livermore
posted by JohnnyGunn at 6:06 PM on December 8, 2008
posted by JohnnyGunn at 6:06 PM on December 8, 2008
Can I slip in semi-autobiographical? Journalist: Evelyn Waugh's Scoop. Even tho it's a novel, it was based on his experiences covering the invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) for the Daily Mail.
posted by t0astie at 6:23 PM on December 8, 2008
posted by t0astie at 6:23 PM on December 8, 2008
Someone who worked on The Life Aquatic was definitely a real marine biologist at one point.
posted by fshgrl at 6:57 PM on December 8, 2008
posted by fshgrl at 6:57 PM on December 8, 2008
Working on an overly ambitious but ultimately mostly failed software project is well-chronicled in Dreaming in Code. I'm reading it in a reading group at work with some engineers who worked with me on it and a few times a chapter we'll find something that resonates with all of us.
posted by crinklebat at 7:56 PM on December 8, 2008
posted by crinklebat at 7:56 PM on December 8, 2008
747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation by Joe Sutter.
It explains pretty well how an aircraft is, in fact, a large number of compromises flying together in a tight formation.
posted by racingjs at 9:17 AM on December 9, 2008
It explains pretty well how an aircraft is, in fact, a large number of compromises flying together in a tight formation.
posted by racingjs at 9:17 AM on December 9, 2008
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posted by jayder at 4:11 PM on December 8, 2008