{ "item_title" : "Work Can Bite Me", "item_author" : [" Dexter Dow "], "item_description" : "Work Can Bite MeThe Anti-Hustle Manifesto for People Who Are Tired of Worshipping Their JobsWhat if the problem isn't your burnout...but the belief system behind your job?For decades, modern culture has preached a single gospel: Work hard. Care deeply. Climb higher. Want more.Productivity is virtue.Loyalty is character.Passion is proof.Growth is destiny.But what if those ideas aren't empowering you?What if they're exhausting you?Work Can Bite Me is a ruthless, intelligent dismantling of the myths that keep ambitious, capable people emotionally captive to their jobs.This book doesn't argue that work is evil.It argues that work has been mythologized.Inside, Dexter Dow takes apart the hidden moral architecture of modern employment: Productivity as a substitute for self-worthLoyalty as a one-sided vowPassion as unpaid laborGratitude as submissionResilience as normalized damageProfessionalism as polite sufferingGrowth as motion without directionHR as liability masquerading as careSurveillance culture and digital controlThe fear of leavingIdentity collapse when the job disappearsThis isn't a career guide.It's a clarity manual.Drawing from economics, psychology, labor history, and cultural critique, Dow exposes how shareholder capitalism, hustle culture, and institutional language quietly fused work with identity - and how that fusion keeps people overextended, overidentified, and under-alive.But this book doesn't stop at critique.In its final act, Work Can Bite Me rebuilds something steadier: Reclaiming time as your most valuable assetDefining enough instead of chasing moreSelective excellence instead of burnout performanceEmotional boundaries in a boundaryless systemApathy as strategic freedomDignity without productivityA life that doesn't apologize for existing beyond outputThis is for professionals who are: Successful on paper but internally exhaustedQuietly questioning the hustle narrativeAfraid to leave but afraid to stayTired of pretending passionReady to stop apologizing for wanting a lifeIf you've ever stared at your calendar and wondered, Is this it?If you've ever felt guilty for resting...If you've ever tied your worth to a performance review...This book is your permission slip to step back without collapsing.You don't have to quit your job.You just have to stop kneeling to it.Work Can Bite Me is not anti-work.It is anti-worship.And once you see the difference, you can never unsee it.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/824/829/9798248296064_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "17.99", "online_price" : "17.99", "our_price" : "17.99", "club_price" : "17.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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