A book you enjoyed with a character who hates their job or career and feels stuck and maybe changes their life or along those lines. I’ve read Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong bookstore which was pretty good and had this theme. Looking for other books that are like this to relate too
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Post office – Charles bukowski
It’s an all time classic and this is a major theme. It also launched him as an author.
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
The Switch (Beth O’Leary)
A Season for Second Chances
There’s No Such Thing As an Easy Job
The New Me by Halle Butler
Dry Heat by Steven Eggleton
The new testament. That carpenter Jesus goes to great lengths to make up the most amazing stories about what he needs to do to avoid helping his dad in the workshop.
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
Douglas Coupland wrote quite a few on those lines. microserfs, generation x, I think shampoo planet. he’s a read-and-move-on author for me, but it was def one of his themes.
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The Filth by Grant Morrison.
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin – David Hobbs