GRUNT

About the Book

There is another four-letter word associated with work: life. Beyond providing us with a means to live and survive it can be a key, as Freud noted, to self-esteem, self-identity and how we value life. Now, "Dr. Siggie" nor I believe that work can only be satisfying if you make a ton of money or become famous and powerful. Rather, what "Herr Doktor" was getting at, I believe, was do you love what you do to earn a living? If so, then you've achieved one of the key components of wellbeing. But this philosophical tenet raises a basic question: If you love your work is it really work? An equally troubling question: Conversely, for those people who dislike their jobs, are they justified in disliking life and themselves?

About the Author

Over the past four decades Peter Cox mopped the floor at Dunkin' Donuts, worked in a candle factory, framed homes, back-packed through Europe, hitched-hike to the West Coast, hopped a freight train across Canada, wrote for the U-Mass Daily Collegian, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in South America, functioned as a paralegal in a refugee office on the Tex-Mex border, earned a M.A. in economics from the University of Texas, organized tenant unions in Salem, Massachusetts, and worked as an urban planner in Irvine, California. He has published several novels including Donuts, Missing Faith, On the Run with Jack Frost, and Blended Borders (Xlibris.com). Presently, he is making ends meet, persevering in the Great Recession and (trying to) keeping hope alive.