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The pinstriped prison / Lisa Pryor
Bib ID 4366142
Format BookBook
Author
Pryor, Lisa
 
Online Versions
Description Sydney : Picador, 2008 
272 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 9780330423502 (pbk.) 
Summary

"Why is that so many of the smartest people in Australia get to their thirties and realise that doing everything right has made for an existence they never really wanted? The Pinstriped Prison is a smart, witty look at the consequences of selling your soul"--Provided by publisher.

Full contents
  • Machine derived contents note: Prologue: Ambition sans frontieres 1
  • 1 GETTING CAUGHT
  • 1 Little lawyers and baby bankers 9
  • 2 Gin and tonics for the gifted and talented 41
  • 3 Recruitment brochure bingo 65
  • 4 Driftnet fishing the intellectual seas 81
  • 5 The joy of spreadsheets 107
  • 6 The private school in the sky 123
  • 2 DOING TIME
  • 7 When good jobs turn bad 145
 
Notes

Title on cover: The pin striped prison : how overachievers get trapped in corporate jobs they hate.

Subjects Quality of work life - Australia.  |  Work - Psychological aspects.  |  Job satisfaction - Australia.
Also Titled

Pin striped prison

Pinstriped prison : how overachievers get trapped in corporate jobs they hate

Pin striped prison : how overachievers get trapped in corporate jobs they hate

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N 306.36 P973
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