Help wanted, desperately
by Horn, Ariel
From the Publisher: Seven months, three weeks, two days-that's exactly how long Alexa has to establish herself in an exciting career. At twenty-one, she's determined to gallop into "the Real World with a Real Job, a Real Life, and a Real Future." Moving in with her parents and commuting from New Jersey into Manhattan is not an option-and if she fails to find serious employment before the time runs out, it's off to teach English on the Third World island of Majuro for $100 a month! But what jobs…
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- Full title :Help wanted, desperately / Ariel Horn.
Summary
From the Publisher: Seven months, three weeks, two days-that's exactly how long Alexa has to establish herself in an exciting career. At twenty-one, she's determined to gallop into "the Real World with a Real Job, a Real Life, and a Real Future." Moving in with her parents and commuting from New Jersey into Manhattan is not an option-and if she fails to find serious employment before the time runs out, it's off to teach English on the Third World island of Majuro for $100 a month! But what jobs are available for an inexperienced young woman in the Big City? Writing headlines about yeast infections for Trend magazine? Sniffing deodorants for a living? Earthworm breeder? Phone sex operator? The Real World, apparently, is not such a welcoming place. With employment opportunities growing increasingly fewer and more bizarre daily, should Alexa consider seeking some stability by moving in with her boyfriend Jared? Between her participation in a clinical sleep study for cash and her desperate attempts to become the voice of a cartoon cat in a last ditch effort to gain "respectful employment," Alexa hardly knows anymore. Maybe what she's really looking for is in the last place she ever thought she'd find it
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2004.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):HarperCollins Publishers, Avon Trade
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2004.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (342 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780062011633, 0062011634
- oclc:ocn773581392
- LC Classification:PS3608.O755
- Dewey Decimal:813/.6
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