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Career Resources October 2024 |
In Focus: Workplace Memoirs OR What is it like to be a... Part 1 |
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Chasing hope : a reporter's life
by Nicholas D. Kristof
The New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author discusses his life in journalism and the great members of his profession and the less-known extraordinary people he has met during his career. Illustrations.
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Exit interview : the life and death of my ambitious career
by Kristi Coulter
In this candid, comical and very relatable memoir, the author recounts her soul-crushing ordeal working at Amazon.com in a culture driven largely by fear until she no longer recognized the face in the mirror or the mission she'd sign up for.
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Private equity : a memoir
by Carrie Sun
"When we meet Carrie Sun, she can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduated early from MIT, and climbed up the corporate ladder, all in pursuit of the American dream. But at twenty-nine, she's left her analyst job, dropped out of an MBA program, and is trapped in an unhappy engagement. So when she gets the rare opportunity to work at one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, she knows she can't say no. Fourteen interviews later, she's in. Carrie is the sole assistant to the firm's billionaire founder. She manages his work life, becoming the right hand to an investor who can move mountains and markets with a single phone call. Eager to impress, she dives headfirst into the firm's culture, which values return on time above all else. A luxury-laden world opens up for her, and Carrie learns that money can solve nearly everything. Playing the game at the highest levels, amid the ultimate winners in our winner-take-all economy, Carrie soon finds her identity swallowed whole by work. With her physical and mental health deteriorating, she begins to rethink what it actually means to waste one's life. A searing examination of our relationship to work, Carrie's story illuminates the struggle for balance in a world of extremes: efficiency and excess, status and aspiration, power and fortune. Private Equity is a universal tale of self-invention from a dazzling new voice, daring to ask what we're willing to sacrifice to climb to the top-and what it might take to break free and leave it all behind"
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Code gray : death, life, and uncertainty in the ER
by Farzon A. Nahvi
This medical memoir focuses on one emergency room doctor's shift and focuses on the riveting story of a 43-year-old woman who arrives in the ER in sudden cardiac arrest and the challenges it presents for physicians.
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