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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago

What book would you recommend to explain to someone what you do for a living?

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What book would you recommend to explain to someone what you do for a living?

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  • @[email protected]
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    1•2 years ago

    James Dukeminier’s “Property”

  • pwshguy (mdowst)
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    3•2 years ago

    The book I wrote. When I first talked with the publisher he asked, “what skills would you look for in someone who wants to do your job?” And that’s the premise I stuck with writing it.

  • @[email protected]
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    3•2 years ago

    Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

  • @[email protected]
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    1•2 years ago

    Not a book, but the Bastard Operator From Hell series on theregister.co.uk gives a decent picture, if a touch dramatized.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆
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    4•2 years ago

    Is there a book for The Big Lebowski? 🤔

    • @[email protected]
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      It actually is a very loose adaptation/inspired by the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep.

      So kind of?

  • @[email protected]
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    14•2 years ago

    No book needed.

    • TheLemming
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      3•2 years ago

      Professional gamer, esports

  • @[email protected]
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    2•2 years ago

    Cinderella. The dead parents are also on point 👌

  • essell
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    3•2 years ago

    Counselling Skills and Studies

  • @[email protected]
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    3•2 years ago

    Kanski’s clinical ophthalmology; https://shop.elsevier.com/books/kanskis-clinical-ophthalmology/salmon/978-0-7020-7711-1

  • @[email protected]
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    5•2 years ago

    Upgrade by Blake Crouch

  • @[email protected]
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    The US Federal code of regulations. Im a US customs broker. At 50 titles and sometimes 100s of pages per title if not thousands, it’d be quite the read in one go!

    Edit: I just checked, it changes pretty regularly, usually stands somewhere around 90 thousand pages. The specific code on customs brokers is title 19 part 111. But really the whole thing is specific to my job in one way or another. I’ve never actually read the entire thing personally as it’s practically impossible. I look up whatever I need to as needed.

  • @[email protected]
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    51•2 years ago

    If I knew of a book that explained my job I’d read it myself.

    • Choco1ateCh1p
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      6•2 years ago

      Ditto!

    • @[email protected]
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      Reading is overrated. I’d feed it to an AI so I could have somewhere to ask questions.

      • @[email protected]
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        Absolutely. Give it to GPT-4 and just ask it questions when I need to.

  • @[email protected]
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    13•2 years ago

    Excel for Dummies 2023

  • @[email protected]
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    1•2 years ago

    Between the lines

    It’s a book that takes the theory out of acoustic design and loudspeaker placement / management, and says “Life sucks, it’s never perfect, let’s make it suck less.”

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    3•2 years ago

    ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook, 2021 edition.

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      What do you do? My honey is an ashraer.

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