Welcome to Litsy!

I can't remember how this book got on my radar, but overall I like it a lot. There's a lot here that resonates with my recent experiences working full-time after a long, long break then choosing to go back to part-time. I think I'm less prone to define myself by my work, but I'm not immune to our culture's take on the virtue of labor. I wish I had a better roadmap for influencing systemic change, but the book provides welcome validation.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ When Coulter had her introvert epiphany, I totally related. Same thing happened to me at about 30 years old and it was honestly life changing. Here, Coulter exposes her 10+ years at Amazon, starting in the early days, and quickly climbing. I appreciate the insight, and inside info, but this was just okay.

I‘ve been bailing on a lot of books this month, but I took a chance on this with an Audible credit. I‘m so glad I did!

Coulter gives a wryly humorous and enlightening account of her 10 years at Amazon. That company is completely crazy, and I‘m not sure how anyone could survive there as long as she did! She worked in their copywriting department, publishing arm, corporate training and a few others. Equal parts fascinating and funny!

An intense book about a smart, ambitious woman‘s experience working at Amazon corp from 2006-2018. She is drily witty & brutally honest.
The fact that a woman THIS accomplished could not get promoted made me want to tear my hair out.
The men who need a good kick in the 🍒 enraged me. The harshness of ‘femaling‘ in that environment!
But it is just as much about her—her smarts, ambition, and lovely husband. But no wonder AMZ drove her to drink…

i absolutely inhaled this book, AND i have 2 critiques, one big & one “i wish it was a different kind of book.”

Coulter is hilarious, thoughtful & pretty direct about her experiences. her POV on AMZ is enlightening, her gradual awareness of the price of overwork spot-on. but she focuses solely on femaleness in tech, never mentions race — a huge miss, to me. she also doesn‘t talk more systemically like, say, DROP THE BALL, which i would have loved

Staying in an Air B&B in my hometown to visit friends and family, and just needed a moment for myself. 😮‍💨😌

Next up is nonfiction. I‘ve been a stay-at-home mom for a long time now and I need all the help I can get to rejoin the workforce 😮‍💨

Uncanny Valley continued!

Trying to level up my job search 😬😮‍💨

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Some interesting thoughts/ideas about keeping work in its place in the context of your life and identity, but a lot of the examples were of super high performers who burned themselves out so badly that they left or took extended sabbaticals, which seem like more extreme cases. I was hoping for more about how to achieve “good enough” job status without having to burn it all down.