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How to Better Hate Your Job

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Reading this book will shake your opinions and confuse the hell out of you all the way through. You'll laugh often, disagree, become pissed off and finally shake your head at the deepest most original wisdom you may have ever read.

Sukop's style is arrogantly irreverent and you'll love it as he kills your sacred cows. An example ... "Common sense tends to degrade what works. Maybe the solution for monetary disparity in the world is not to fight greed but to promote it heavily."

Seriously, there isn't an author alive or dead who understands more about money and what causes it to flow than Egbert Sukop. If you want to read something powerfully fresh and definitely groundbreaking - buy this book.

"Provocative? PROVOCATIVE??? Deliciously so. Thank you, Egbert Sukop, for this book. I am definitely talking about it, and want everyone I know to read it. Some I could only take in a chunk here and there--and this writing definitely snuck by my mind--most of what was said STILL hasn't registered there! Or like a friend I loaned it too--she couldn't sleep. I think that a good thing.
Egbert "approaches/ attacks/plays with" major assumptions Americans make about making a living.
The concepts offered are so "other." Short, sweet, not-so-sweet--a definite wake-up call to anyone who values out of the box living.

Having worked in corporate America for over 10 years in various management positions and having an MBA from a Tier 1 B-School, I have read many self help books on money, business, management, leadership, you name it. This book is SOOO different from ANYTHING I have read. Egbert Sukop takes an insightful and creative look at motivation and assumptions people live by in life and in work. Then, quickly and almost rudely blows them away. This book is written as a sarcastic, albeit refreshingly honest look at how waiting for the next thing in life is almost never fulfilling and to do so is silly. It makes you examine why you are the way you are with your relationship to work. I read this book at a life changing stage in my life; one in which my career will likely be affected and while it irritated me at first, it got me to really think about what I do, what I want to do, and how I can approach it differently. I highly recommend this book and look forward to reading The Money Adventure by Sukop.

Perhaps Egbert's new book ought to be titled, The Power of Pain, and come with a warning, not intended for wimps. It is not an easy read--it will incite you, challenge your thinking and slam many of your fundamental beliefs about work, money, life.
His tone is irreverant, crude and sometimes even offensive, but at the same time it offers brilliant and powerful insights on the paradox of the human condition.
Hate it or love it, if you can suffer through reading it, you may just find gold under the mud--I did.

"You will undoubtedly love to hate this book and its author long before you finish reading it, and you will never be the same after being exposed to this cynical masterpiece. Beware - Sukop offers no chicken soup to make you feel better, nor does he coddle your inner child. Rather, he cleverly and comically implies that you should find your own method of snapping yourself out of your habits, patterns, and beliefs so you can finally start having some fun and actually enjoy your existence. He pretends to write about money and jobs, but in fact he is writing about life in general. You may love to hate this book so much that you find yourself re-reading it over and over again, and buying it for your enemies that you love to hate so much." --Tera Crisalida

It's been my pleasure to cut Egbert's hair for the past year and a half. He is an erudite, fascinating, esoteric individual. His take on things is always different, humorous, and intelligent. His cynicism is extreme, but, not without having explored and empiracally reached conclusions which are undeniable. People often share things with their hairstylist (and similiarly their bartender)that they would not share with others. Owing to Hairdresser/client privelage, I will not disclose any "spoilers", but let me say that Egbert's book is not without redeeming value. It requires you to "wake-up" to what is happening in
your professional life and to think for yourself. He does not disclose any quick and easy solutions to your problem, but, rather, requires you to realize what it is that will bring "Nirvana" to your life.

Subjugating yourself to the disadvantages of the "real" world is your choice. (Yes, we do have choices) Unless you are fortunate to inherit a fortune, or win the lottery, the odds of your overcoming your "fate" as to working for someone or even having your own business are miniscule.

Now what makes me so special, and how have I achieved a modicum of happiness in my life: I have been an accountant (with an MBA), an actor, a college professor (adjunct), an investor, and a hairstylist. I realized at age 53 that I was not happy professionally. Sure, I made decent money, but outside of teaching and acting, I was not happy. So, I made the career change: I took a year off and went to beauty school. I now do hair and makeup for shows, work part-time at a salon (love the customers, but I do work for someone else and you'll have to read Egbert's book to find out about that), invest (as I have been one the lucky ones to have achieved the status of capitalist), play golf, dabble with nature photography, and hike on the mountains of Northern Arizona. Could be worse! And , oh yes, I am now 67.

Read Egbert's book and wake up! You'll figure it out.