Publisher's Synopsis
Wage Slave is driven from job to job, from vocation to vocation, never finding stability or success for long. Although he is well educated, his mental and physical health are disastrous. Unable to get any career momentum, he is relegated to the lowest-paying high-risk jobs as he vainly trudges on trying to find romance and social acceptance, all of which remain illusive. Driven further down by his insecurity and vulnerability, he is subject to continual danger and humiliation and must use every resource available to make it from day to day. But during these long seasons of familial and economic exile, amidst the isolation and frustration, come moments of joy, adventure and deep satisfaction. Wage Slave is essentially disabled, but unable and unwilling to deal with the unwieldy and punitive disability system, hence he must work at odd ours and in strange locations that no healthy or confident person would tolerate. And yet Wage Slave keep reinventing himself in hopes of finding an island of occupational peace in an economic ocean filled with predatory sharks. The results are mixed.
