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Work Work Work: Book 2: Memoirs of a Downwardly Spiraling Career
The average American has thirteen jobs in a lifetime. Tom Bross has had at least forty. This is Book Two, where things start coming apart.
You should know up front that the train comes a little off the rails in this one. There's a paycheck that doubles overnight and a CEO who eventually doubles as a federal inmate. There's a dot-com that collapses, and an engagement at Disneyland, which is not the happiest place on earth. He restocked first-aid cabinets out of a beat-up van across Eastern Washington, one knuckle bandage at a time.
He had a dream job atop the Saint Francis Hotel and lost it to a courtroom. He had a fiancée and a house and a future, until the police were called and he was sleeping on a friend's couch. He watched his father get lost on a jog and knew, in that moment, what was coming.
This is also the volume where Tom finally writes about the night he didn't think he'd live to write about. It's one chapter. It's honest. And then the book keeps going, the way life did.
Work Work Work is a memoir told one paycheck at a time, by a guy who has loved most of his jobs, hated a few of them, and somehow kept showing up. If you've ever made a bad choice for the right money, watched a parent start to disappear from inside themselves, or just needed to laugh at something on a Tuesday—pull up a chair. Tom's not done yet…
You should know up front that the train comes a little off the rails in this one. There's a paycheck that doubles overnight and a CEO who eventually doubles as a federal inmate. There's a dot-com that collapses, and an engagement at Disneyland, which is not the happiest place on earth. He restocked first-aid cabinets out of a beat-up van across Eastern Washington, one knuckle bandage at a time.
He had a dream job atop the Saint Francis Hotel and lost it to a courtroom. He had a fiancée and a house and a future, until the police were called and he was sleeping on a friend's couch. He watched his father get lost on a jog and knew, in that moment, what was coming.
This is also the volume where Tom finally writes about the night he didn't think he'd live to write about. It's one chapter. It's honest. And then the book keeps going, the way life did.
Work Work Work is a memoir told one paycheck at a time, by a guy who has loved most of his jobs, hated a few of them, and somehow kept showing up. If you've ever made a bad choice for the right money, watched a parent start to disappear from inside themselves, or just needed to laugh at something on a Tuesday—pull up a chair. Tom's not done yet…
295 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 3, 2026
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October 13, 2026
Tom does it again. . . he manages to pull you in and take you along for the ride as if you were carpooling with him on his next round of work adventures, mishaps, and foibles.
I found this second volume a bit harder to follow than the first. The chapters don’t always follow a linear timeline and some of the transitions felt abrupt. Some of that may be because I haven't yet read the Don’t Call Me Jupiter trilogy and only have his social media posts as references to things that happened in the past.
Beyond the work-related adventures, this volume ventures into considerably heavier territory than the first. Tom writes about his suicide attempt, the end of his engagement, the aftermath of his sister Chris’s death, his divorce, and his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s. Those experiences weighed on my mind as I read, yet they also made me admire Tom’s sense of humor and his creative talents as a writer and designer even more.
It’s Tom’s ability to find humor amid life’s difficulties that keeps you turning the pages. And just when you think you’ve caught up with his adventures, he leaves you hanging. You will have to read Volume 3 to find out what happens next!
I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I found this second volume a bit harder to follow than the first. The chapters don’t always follow a linear timeline and some of the transitions felt abrupt. Some of that may be because I haven't yet read the Don’t Call Me Jupiter trilogy and only have his social media posts as references to things that happened in the past.
Beyond the work-related adventures, this volume ventures into considerably heavier territory than the first. Tom writes about his suicide attempt, the end of his engagement, the aftermath of his sister Chris’s death, his divorce, and his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s. Those experiences weighed on my mind as I read, yet they also made me admire Tom’s sense of humor and his creative talents as a writer and designer even more.
It’s Tom’s ability to find humor amid life’s difficulties that keeps you turning the pages. And just when you think you’ve caught up with his adventures, he leaves you hanging. You will have to read Volume 3 to find out what happens next!
I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
July 3, 2026
I received an advance reader copy of this book and could not put it down. Tom has a way of weaving humor into almost everything, and where he doesn't bring humor he brings honesty. This book is very engaging, and is highly recommended.
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