Finally, Work!

By Daniele De Zen

FINALLY, WORK

A tragicomic and surreal tale about the first encounter with the world of work.

Simone has studied. A lot. He's made it through high school, university, a master's degree, countless exams, libraries, lecture notes, and sleepless nights spent highlighting. He's done everything expected of a good student. And now, finally, he's ready.

Or at least, that's what he thought.

Because once the studying ends, Simone finds himself facing a new and mysterious land: the search for a first job.

He has no idea where to start.

He sends out resumes, scours job ads, tries to make sense of portals, acronyms, "minimum required experience," and motivational blurbs packed with enthusiasm but empty of meaning.

Every attempt vanishes into thin air.

Until one day, almost by chance, he gets a call. A company invites him to an interview. The location is vague, the time approximate, the tone... unsettlingly polite.

Against all odds, Simone gets hired.

But what awaits him has nothing to do with what he studied.

Welcome to the real world of work. The one where nobody quite knows what they're doing - but does it with great conviction. Where emails are more longer, meetings feel like group rituals, and coworkers speak in code, always on the verge of a breakdown or a promotion.

The hallways are quiet, yet charged with passive-aggressive tension. Coffee breaks turn into confessionals. Glowing monitors reveal parallel lives. And the absurd slowly replaces logic.

There are those who speak only in corporate aphorisms, those who live for the next deadline (which no one really understands), and those who never appear but are always mentioned like some higher entity.

FINALLY, WORK is a tragicomic, timely, and surreal story about stepping into the workplace - told with a clear eye, a sharp wit, and a gently disillusioned heart.

Through the dazed and sincere gaze of its protagonist, the reader explores the grotesque side of modern office life, where words lose meaning, gestures repeat endlessly, and each day brings a new little mystery to unravel.

A world where efficiency is often just performance, and internal communication borders on fantasy fiction.

This book is for those who: Have searched for a job and felt like a numberHave sat through interviews where the role was "dynamic" yet incomprehensibleHave known a colleague who communicates only via CCHave had to decipher org charts as cryptic as treasure maps------
And have asked themselves: "Is all this normal?"

With a lively and biting style, FINALLY, WORK tells a personal story that could easily be anyone's.

A modern odyssey made of digital paperwork, fake smiles, abstract KPIs, and directives justified by "strategic guidelines" that sound like they came from an oracle.

Behind every cryptic email, every endless meeting, every never-ending presentation, hides the great adventure of adaptation.

Or at least, trying to.

Welcome. Or maybe not.
But you're in it now.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FCCQRR91
• ISBN13: 9798285981244
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"