In the last three months, Roberto lost his job, discovered his father had cancer and was turned down for employment and support allowance, a situation which left him destitute and forced him to beg on the street in order to feed himself.
He acquired an Anglo-Israeli boyfriend and a decent restaurant job, discovered his talent for catering home-cooked food ("After all those years of dreaming about European food, I realized that the food I grew up with was the food I did best"), and settled into the kind of "good" neighborhood that he describes dryly as "quite unusual for an Arab living in Tel Aviv".
His day job, discovering a way to break the global dominance of Novak Djokovic, is likely to remain incomplete.
In Comment gagner sa vie honnêtement (2010), Jean Rouaud continued his famous series of autofictions, concentrating this time on the 1970s, when refusing to compromise and embark on a steady career path, he instead wandered from job to job, discovering in his adventures the writer he would later become.
("Make me an Alaskan Polar Bear on the double!") The Nutty Professor borrows liberally from Preston Sturges' subversive late comedy, Mad Wednesday (aka The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock, 1947) in which a humble, repressed bookkeeper (Harold Lloyd) loses his job, discovers the joys of alcohol and is transformed into a wild-eyed party animal.
Aaron is a wonderful character; he specialises in finding the "green stems, smashed jars, pale curving triangles, wine and soda bottles that glint like giant pearls from within the stinking rice, bread crusts and plastic spoons" piled outside shops and restaurants, and he's fallen in love with his job, discovering extraordinary beauty in the discarded shards.
European washing machines, Jobs discovered, used less detergent and less water than their American counterparts, and were easier on the clothes.
Bad things also might happen if Jobs discovered that Apple was using Compaq computer servers rather than its own.
Common areas include matching up your general career goals to specific jobs (or types of jobs), discovering unadvertised jobs, and identifying your professional strengths and weakness as they relate to your particular career choices.
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But this production also rings with the primal pain of a working-class American who, once stripped of the identity of his job, discovers he belongs nowhere.
