{"product_id":"still-needs-work-9781647426804","title":"Still Needs Work","description":"Marianne gets the call while attending a conference in San Francisco: laid off, department dissolved. Two days later, she's back home in the dicey Kansas City neighborhood she moved to after a reversal of fortune two years ago. After all this time rebuilding her life, it's all collapsed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe daily grind is just that--a grind. Until it isn't, until it's gone and taken health insurance, retirement contributions, and the currency to buy food and shelter, never mind the free coffee at the office, along with it. In the aftermath of her layoff, Marianne tries all the usual routes to re-employment, but a middle-aged woman, regardless of experience, has little job cred in the tech world, especially with an address in the heartland. A contract job at a Chicago startup morphs through two acquisitions in eight weeks. And then she's mugged in her own neighborhood, which frightens her enough to consider a permanent move away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn irreverent look at the alien denizens of the tech world, the fraught business of mergers and acquisitions, and the parallel universe of job openings, \u003ci\u003eStill Needs Work\u003c\/i\u003e is a contemporary story of the working world wrapped around a very human story of one person, her dog, and her community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e She Writes Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647426804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ellen Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43972040229045,"sku":"9781647426804","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_833406ca-0eff-4855-8ba3-c25caad27d81.jpg?v=1713281425","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/still-needs-work-9781647426804","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}