The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton

We spend most of our waking lives at workin occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace beautifully exploring what other people wake up to do each dayand nightto make our frenzied world function.