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Work Work Work: Book 3: 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 Three, where the dust starts to settle.
You should know up front that this is the one with the happy ending—though Tom would call it more of a mostly-survived ending, which feels more honest anyway.
At ten, he was a drug mule for his hippie mother and got busted by a bike cop for riding on the wrong side of the street. Not for the drugs. The drugs were fine. At twenty, he came home from four months of backpacking through Europe to find his first love had taken up with a poet, which was rude. At thirty-something, he was creating ads for career colleges under a boss who treated office decorum as a suggestion. At fifty-something, he was getting fired by an executive who didn't appreciate his sense of humor, and by a manager who finally got around to drug-testing him.
Somewhere along the way, against his better judgment and his own loudly protesting math, he figured out what the happy ending actually was. And on his sixty-fourth birthday he received the email that every employee dreads—Team Restructuring—which turned out to be exactly what he needed, because it meant he finally had time to write the book you're holding.
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 finally has a clean answer to "What do you do?" Pull up a chair. Tom’s been waiting to tell you this part…
You should know up front that this is the one with the happy ending—though Tom would call it more of a mostly-survived ending, which feels more honest anyway.
At ten, he was a drug mule for his hippie mother and got busted by a bike cop for riding on the wrong side of the street. Not for the drugs. The drugs were fine. At twenty, he came home from four months of backpacking through Europe to find his first love had taken up with a poet, which was rude. At thirty-something, he was creating ads for career colleges under a boss who treated office decorum as a suggestion. At fifty-something, he was getting fired by an executive who didn't appreciate his sense of humor, and by a manager who finally got around to drug-testing him.
Somewhere along the way, against his better judgment and his own loudly protesting math, he figured out what the happy ending actually was. And on his sixty-fourth birthday he received the email that every employee dreads—Team Restructuring—which turned out to be exactly what he needed, because it meant he finally had time to write the book you're holding.
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 finally has a clean answer to "What do you do?" Pull up a chair. Tom’s been waiting to tell you this part…
313 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 3, 2026
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August 7, 2026
another good one!
I have read all of his books and have enjoyed all of them and hope there is more to come.
I have read all of his books and have enjoyed all of them and hope there is more to come.
August 1, 2026
The whole series of three were both thought provoking and entertaining. I find it enjoyable to listen to an author read their own memoirs as Tom Bross does. If only the rest of us could so easily tell the story of our work experiences the way this author does—candidly discussing what he observed about his coworkers and the various people he worked for throughout the years. I laughed out loud quite a few times throughout this series.
September 1, 2026
Thank you Tom Bross - another super entertaining and very candid story! I’m amazed at the variety of jobs he’s had with the strength and tenacity to be very honest. I’m giving this series 5 stars because I love all his stories. One thing I found confusing was that it jumped around too much. I had trouble following timelines, years, etc. a constructive criticism would be to label sections/chapters with years. Looking forward to downloading Evergreen Lodge!
August 15, 2026
Very funny and touching
Loved reading about all of Tom's experiences at work and love. Sure can relate to all the crummy jobs, getting fired, and endless cycle of work and unemployment. Look forward to more books from this author who finally found his calling.
Loved reading about all of Tom's experiences at work and love. Sure can relate to all the crummy jobs, getting fired, and endless cycle of work and unemployment. Look forward to more books from this author who finally found his calling.
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