the pleasures and sorrows of work by alain de botton

Along the way, de Botton tries to answer some of the most urgent questions we can pose about work: Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable? What is its meaning? To what end do we daily exhaust not only ourselves but also our planet? Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton offers a characteristically lucid and witty tour of the working day and night, in a book sure to inspire a range of life-changing and wise thoughts.

De Botton spends time in and around some less familiar work environments, including warehouses, container ports, rocket launch pads, and power stations, and follows scientists, landscape painters, accountants, cookie manufacturers, therapists, entrepreneurs, and aircraft salesmen as they do their jobs. Determined to correct this lapse, armed with a poetic perspective and his trademark philosophical sharpness, Alain de Botton heads out into the world of offices and factories, ready to take in the beauty, interest, and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace. the pleasures and sorrows of work alain de botton web the pleasures and sorrows of work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Hardcover Jby Alain De Botton (Author) 179 ratings Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 30.00 44 Used from 2.25 5 New from 18.99 3 Collectible from 13.99 Paperback 17.99 46 Used from 2.20 20 New from 11. We spend most of our time at work, but what we do there rarely gets discussed in the sort of lyrical and descriptive prose our efforts surely deserve. From the international bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this lyrical, erudite look at our world of work.

The pleasures and sorrows of work by alain de botton