The Temp Is It-bookcover

By: Simon Carroll

The Temp Is It

Pages: 130 Ratings: 4.5

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Book Description

Why are we all expected to do something to make money?

Why must we work?

There must be a better way.

This book is a tale of a less-than-ordinary life that some choose to lead.

This is an everyman struggle set in the 1980s. Mrs T is in number 10, it is grim up north, and there is not a full job to be found. Simon therefore sets off on the temp trail. This is a true tale of trying to find some worthwhile work and something more than a meagre payslip.

These are the jobs no one wants, and you are the misfit no one wants. If there is a positive, it is that the time spent in each is mercifully short.

Will the sun come out along the way? Who knows?

Simon Carroll was born in Manchester, United Kingdom and is the middle child of a working-class family who does not fit in, and the prospect of work feels so unfair. After the 27 jobs described in the book, he had some real jobs and worked in the following places: France, Spain, India, Sudan, The Maldives, Dubai and Switzerland. He still dares to dream.

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  • Suzzie A

    A good read about a Mundane topic noy quite Charlie B but made me smile

  • Daz L

    It was hard back in the ther day and the Temp takes us there and hope for more too. Funy and ironic a good read back to the future

  • Claudia White

    A happy trip back to the 80s Now thats what I call writing Took pleasure in the pain of finding a job

  • Don Simon

    A funny self-deprecating tale of the temping world of work.

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