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Welcome to the most dangerous competition you never signed up for: the modern job hunt.

Forget red jumpsuits and creepy masks—today’s job seekers face a different kind of arena. One where résumés are shredded by algorithms, recruiter emails vanish like smoke, and every “We’ll be in touch soon” is code for “We ghosted you weeks ago.”

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Welcome to the most dangerous competition you never signed up for: the modern job hunt.

Forget red jumpsuits and creepy masks—today’s job seekers face a different kind of arena. One where résumés are shredded by algorithms, recruiter emails vanish like smoke, and every “We’ll be in touch soon” is code for “We ghosted you weeks ago.”

In Squid Game: Hiring Edition, Alex P. takes readers through eighty outrageous “rounds” of the hiring process, each one more absurd than the last. From Red Light, Green Light Résumé Drop to the Salary Negotiation Glass Bridge, every chapter turns the bleak, soul-crushing job search into dark comedy you can’t look away from.

Here’s what you’ll find inside:

• The ATS Bloodbath: where résumés go to die before a human even sees them.
• The One-Way Video Interview: a staring contest with your webcam that feels more like Black Mirror than a career opportunity.
• The Ghosting Ceremony: because nothing says “we value people” like ignoring them completely.
• The “We Promoted Intern Kevin Instead” Slap: spoiler, Kevin doesn’t even know how to use Excel.
• The “Internal Candidate” Twist Ending: the cruelest reveal of all—you were never really playing.

And if you somehow survive to the final rounds? You’ll face the true boss levels: negotiating benefits that don’t exist, dodging stock options riddles that make no sense, and realizing the “job offer showdown” might not be an offer at all.

This isn’t just a parody. It’s a survival manual for anyone who’s ever:

• Spent 45 minutes on an application, only to be rejected in 45 seconds.
• Heard “We’ll keep your résumé on file” and knew it was corporate for “straight to the shredder.”
• Endured an interview panel that felt more like a firing squad.
• Pretended “culture fit” wasn’t just code for “we don’t know how to say no politely.”

With biting humor, raw honesty, and enough absurdity to make you laugh through the pain, Alex P. captures the shared nightmare of job seekers everywhere. This book isn’t here to fix the system—it’s here to expose it, roast it, and make you feel a little less alone while you play the most rigged game on Earth.

Whether you’re unemployed, underemployed, or simply “exploring new opportunities” (translation: plotting your escape), Squid Game: Hiring Edition will give you the catharsis you need: proof that yes, the job hunt really is this insane—and no, you’re not the only one stuck in the arena.

Because in today’s job market, surviving isn’t about winning the offer. It’s about keeping your humor, your dignity, and your sanity intact.

Welcome to HR Island, where résumés are burned in bonfires, PTO is a rumor, and promotions are shiny titles with no raises attached. This isn’t just a book—it’s a survival guide, a comedy roast, and the reality show recap you didn’t know you needed.

From the author of Sorry, We Went with Another Candidate and Corporate Avengers: Endgame Wa

Welcome to HR Island, where résumés are burned in bonfires, PTO is a rumor, and promotions are shiny titles with no raises attached. This isn’t just a book—it’s a survival guide, a comedy roast, and the reality show recap you didn’t know you needed.

From the author of Sorry, We Went with Another Candidate and Corporate Avengers: Endgame Was My Exit Interview, Alex delivers the funniest workplace parody of the decade. Eighty chapters, endless absurdities, and one ultimate truth: surviving corporate life isn’t about talent. It’s about stamina, sarcasm, and smiling politely when HR says, “We’re like family here.”

On HR Island, survival means…

• Dodging the Ghosting Gauntlet, where recruiters vanish mid-sentence.
• Suffering the Performance Review in the Sand, rating yourself on a useless five-point scale.
• Escaping the Buzzword Volcano, where “synergy” and “value-add” erupt every 12 minutes.
• Living in the Open Office Tent, with no walls, no privacy, and too many motivational posters.
• Surviving the Town Hall of Tears, where layoffs always follow “everything is fine.”

This isn’t about fire or fishing. It’s about keeping a straight face through compliance training with 2% battery left.

Why You’ll Love It

Other books tell you to hustle harder and lean in. This one laughs with you. It’s painfully true, laugh-out-loud funny, and cathartic for anyone who’s ever waited weeks for a rejection email addressed to “[Candidate’s First Name],” been told they’re “overqualified,” or survived a holiday party that ended in an HR investigation.

Early Praise (definitely real employees):
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Finally, a book that explains why I drink wine after every town hall.” – Anonymous Manager
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I laughed so hard I stayed muted for 40 minutes. Best meeting ever.” – Disgruntled Employee
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I put this in the suggestion box. The box was sealed. Still recommend.” – Unpaid Intern

At the end of HR Island, you don’t win PTO, immunity, or cash. You win something better: solidarity, laughter, and the reminder that you’re not broken—the system is.

Because getting paid what you’re worth shouldn’t feel like surviving a stunt show.

If you’ve ever sat in a salary negotiation and thought, “This feels like Fear Factor, except the prize is rent money and the stunts are psychological,” — welcome.

This isn’t a corporate guide full of jargon and trust-fall metaphors. This is a behind-the-scene

Because getting paid what you’re worth shouldn’t feel like surviving a stunt show.

If you’ve ever sat in a salary negotiation and thought, “This feels like Fear Factor, except the prize is rent money and the stunts are psychological,” — welcome.

This isn’t a corporate guide full of jargon and trust-fall metaphors. This is a behind-the-scenes, laugh-through-the-pain tour of the modern paycheck battlefield, written by someone who’s lived every awkward pause, every fake budget freeze, and every “compensation philosophy” PowerPoint that explains absolutely nothing.

In Fear Factor: Salary Negotiations, Alex Pyatkovsky (author of Sorry, We Went with Another Candidate and Corporate Avengers: Endgame Was My Exit Interview) takes you through the wildest, weirdest, and most infuriating moments that happen when you dare to ask for more:

• The recruiter who acts like your raise is coming out of their personal checking account.
   
• The “we’ll revisit this in six months” promise you know is a lie.
   
• The random “bonus” meant to shut you up—and why it never works.
   
• The signing bonus that turns into a surprise tax bill you’ll never forget.
   
• Finding out a new hire makes more than you… for less work.
   
• Realizing you’ve been underpaid for years and deciding that ends now.
   

With humor sharp enough to cut through corporate nonsense and honesty that’ll make you feel seen, this book isn’t just about winning a negotiation—it’s about walking into one with the kind of confidence that says, “I know my worth, and I’m not afraid to prove it.”

Alex doesn’t just celebrate the wins. He shares the failed counteroffers, the jobs he walked away from, and the moments where the best choice was to say “no” and mean it. Because the truth is, salary negotiations aren’t just about money—they’re about boundaries, dignity, and refusing to play a game where the rules are stacked against you.

By the final chapter, you’ll know how to:

• Hold your ground without burning bridges.
   
• Spot the difference between “budget limits” and bluffing.
   
• Walk away without guilt when the offer doesn’t match your value.
   
• Approach every negotiation without fear—no matter what curveballs they throw.
   

If you’ve ever been underpaid, undervalued, or under-caffeinated while trying to land the paycheck you deserve… you’ve already competed in this reality show. This book makes sure you never walk into the next round unprepared.

In a world where one job posting can attract hundreds — sometimes thousands — of desperate hopefuls, one candidate will face the trials, the rejections, and the psychological games of the modern hiring process. That candidate… is you.

Forget inspirational career guides. This is the brutal, laugh-out-loud truth about job hunting in the 21st

In a world where one job posting can attract hundreds — sometimes thousands — of desperate hopefuls, one candidate will face the trials, the rejections, and the psychological games of the modern hiring process. That candidate… is you.

Forget inspirational career guides. This is the brutal, laugh-out-loud truth about job hunting in the 21st century, told in 78 long, binge-worthy chapters from inside the mind of a battle-worn applicant. Alex doesn’t sugarcoat a thing. You’ll feel every awkward handshake, every fake “we’re excited about your background” email, and every gut-punching “We went with another candidate” rejection that shows up after weeks of hopeful waiting.

This isn’t just a book — it’s a survival log. And like any good survival story, it’s equal parts hilarious and horrifying. You’ll sit in on panel interviews where one person’s eating trail mix, another is clearly still in pajamas, and the “cross-functional partner” looks like they’re being held hostage. You’ll endure take-home assignments so long and complicated they might qualify as unpaid consulting projects. You’ll even meet the mysterious “internal candidate” who somehow manages to snatch the job you’ve been chasing for months.

Along the way, you’ll revisit all the familiar stops on the job-hunting roller coaster:

• Crafting the perfect resume, only to have it fed into an algorithm that prefers robots over humans.
• Writing cover letters with all the romance of an unrequited love note — and about the same chance of being read.
• Surviving “quick chats” that take an hour and answer exactly zero of your questions.
• Watching a job get reposted right after your rejection email lands in your inbox.
• Debating whether “Open to Work” on LinkedIn is a lifeline or a neon sign that says pity me.

But beneath the sarcasm, The Purge: Candidate Edition is about something more. It’s about the stubborn resilience of people who keep showing up. It’s about finding small victories — like making it past the first round, or landing an interview at all — in a market where hope sometimes feels like a luxury. It’s about laughing through the chaos so you don’t lose your mind.

If you’ve ever been between jobs, trapped in one you hate, or just fascinated by the absurd theater of corporate hiring, you’ll recognize yourself in these pages. You’ll cringe, you’ll laugh, and you’ll nod in agreement at just how universal this madness has become. And when you reach the end, you might even feel a little lighter — because if you can survive the hiring purge in these pages, you can survive it in real life.

This book is for the job seekers, the career switchers, the freshly laid off, the underpaid, the overqualified, the “ghosted before the first interview” crew, and anyone who has ever stared at their inbox waiting for news like it’s the final rose ceremony.

In The Purge: Candidate Edition, there’s only one rule: Survive the interview. Win the job. Or die trying.

If you haven’t been on the job market lately, let me paint the scene for you:
Take the emotional exhaustion of The Hunger Games, the awkward forced charm of The Bachelor, and the group project from college where you did all the work while your teammates ghosted you — and then mix in a few rejection emails that arrive at 3:02 a.m. just to 

If you haven’t been on the job market lately, let me paint the scene for you:
Take the emotional exhaustion of The Hunger Games, the awkward forced charm of The Bachelor, and the group project from college where you did all the work while your teammates ghosted you — and then mix in a few rejection emails that arrive at 3:02 a.m. just to remind you that you’re not sleeping anyway. That’s job hunting in 2025.

I didn’t sign up for it. Neither did you. But here we are — trying to survive a hiring process that has somehow become part psychological warfare, part reality TV, and part Olympic endurance event.

In this book, you’ll follow my misadventures through 77 brutally honest, painfully relatable, and laugh-out-loud chapters that pull zero punches about what it’s really like out there. From the very first click of “submit application” to the anticlimactic moment you realize they went with “another candidate,” it’s all here — the hope, the humiliation, the irony, and the moments that make you question whether recruiters are secretly being paid in chaos.

Along the way, you’ll meet:

• The recruiter who disappeared mid-process like my Wi-Fi during a thunderstorm.
• The hiring manager who ate lunch during my interview — full fork, no shame.
• The job posting that asked for 25 years of experience for an entry-level role (math is hard, apparently).
• The company that told me to “be authentic” — and then promptly ghosted me after I was.
• The “urgent role” that somehow took six months to fill and still didn’t call me back.
• The “We’re like a family” culture that turned out to be more “family drama over Thanksgiving dinner” than warm and fuzzy.

Every chapter starts where the last one left off — because, like a Netflix binge you didn’t mean to start, the job search has no clean breaks. Some days are filled with cautious optimism, like the time I got a call back for a job I had no business being considered for. Others are pure comedy, like when my cat became the star of my Zoom interview. And then there are the days that feel like an Olympic defeat — the kind where you’ve already jumped through six hoops, only to be told the hiring team has “pivoted their strategy” (translation: never mind).

But here’s the thing: this isn’t a self-help manual promising to land you your dream job in “five easy steps.” This is a survival guide for keeping your sanity intact when the market feels more like a game show you never auditioned for. It’s proof that if you can laugh at the absurdity of it all — and maybe sneak in a little bit of resilience — you’re already winning in ways the job market can’t measure.

Packed with brutally honest truths, ridiculous corporate contradictions, and real quotes you’ll swear I made up (“We’ll keep your résumé on file” — for what, a museum?), Job Hunting in 2025: The Olympics Nobody Signed Up For is for anyone who’s been ghosted, over-assessed, underpaid, and politely rejected by strangers who claim to “wish you the best.”

Whether you’re knee-deep in applications, licking your wounds after your fifth final-round rejection, or just here for the schadenfreude, this book will make you laugh, cringe, and nod in painful agreement.

Because in 2025, job hunting isn’t just about finding a paycheck — it’s about surviving the games, keeping your sense of humor, and remembering that sometimes the best job offer is the one you give yourself.

What if the life you were meant to live was never on your original itinerary?

When Alex boarded a one-way flight from Chicago to Copán Ruinas, Honduras, he wasn’t chasing purpose. He was escaping burnout, broken plans, and a version of himself he no longer recognized. What he found instead was a slower pace, a red notebook, a rooftop conve

What if the life you were meant to live was never on your original itinerary?

When Alex boarded a one-way flight from Chicago to Copán Ruinas, Honduras, he wasn’t chasing purpose. He was escaping burnout, broken plans, and a version of himself he no longer recognized. What he found instead was a slower pace, a red notebook, a rooftop conversation in the rain—and a woman named Ruth who would change everything.

In Passport to Purpose, Alex takes readers on a breathtaking journey through culture shock, unexpected friendships, language stumbles, and the kind of faith that only grows in unfamiliar soil. From the chaos of chicken buses and visa runs to the quiet intimacy of bilingual prayers and cross-cultural marriage, this deeply personal memoir explores what happens when we stop demanding clarity and start walking by trust.

Told in 76 powerful, narrative-driven chapters, this is more than a love story. It’s a story about identity, humility, and the sacred detours that lead us home—not to a place, but to purpose itself.

Perfect for readers who:

• Are navigating career changes, cross-cultural transitions, or faith shifts
   
• Have ever asked, “Is this all there is?”
   
• Love emotionally raw, humor-laced, memoirs with a message
   
• Believe the most life-changing adventures often start with saying yes to the unknown
   

If you've ever felt stuck between who you were and who you're becoming, Passport to Purpose will speak to the part of you still searching—and remind you that sometimes, getting lost is the only way to be found.

What if your biggest workplace enemy wasn’t a rival coworker—but a chatbot named Dave? What if your performance review was auto-generated by an algorithm that ghosted you after calling you “emotionally inefficient”? And what if your farewell email got flagged as spam… by the company you gave your twenties to?

Welcome to Corporate Avengers:

What if your biggest workplace enemy wasn’t a rival coworker—but a chatbot named Dave? What if your performance review was auto-generated by an algorithm that ghosted you after calling you “emotionally inefficient”? And what if your farewell email got flagged as spam… by the company you gave your twenties to?

Welcome to Corporate Avengers: Endgame Was My Exit Interview—a brilliantly funny, emotionally raw, and painfully accurate satire about the modern workplace, where buzzwords have replaced boundaries, AI writes the policies, and your promotion might go to a mobile app.

Told in first person by an overworked, under-respected employee trying to survive a tech-driven corporate implosion, this 77-chapter saga walks you through the digital absurdities and emotional landmines of working in 2025:

• Meetings that could’ve been messages.
   
• Messages that could’ve been warnings.
   
• Layoffs disguised as “strategic pivots.”
   
• Job applications rejected by bots that used your résumé to train themselves.
   

Each chapter is a standalone disaster—funny, vulnerable, and a little too real. Whether it's being ghosted by your own team, training your AI replacement, or crying in the office bathroom while pretending to be on a “wellness break,” this book doesn’t just chronicle a corporate downfall—it honors the exhausted heart behind every paycheck.

Perfect for fans of The Office, Severance, and anyone who’s ever sent a Slack message to themselves just to feel seen.

You’ll laugh. You’ll cringe. You’ll whisper, “Oh no, this is too accurate.”

And by the final chapter—when the bots take over the org chart and HR sends a termination invite disguised as a pizza party—you’ll realize this isn’t just a satire. It’s a survival guide.

Because if you’ve ever been asked to “circle back,” “take initiative,” or “embrace synergy” without context or compensation… this book is for you.

What if your delay wasn’t a denial—just a divine redirection?

This is not a book about having it all together. It’s a book about falling apart, getting up, and daring to believe that your story still matters—even when it doesn’t look like a success story yet.

Not the End. Just a Detour is a raw, honest, and healing journey for anyone who’s 

What if your delay wasn’t a denial—just a divine redirection?

This is not a book about having it all together. It’s a book about falling apart, getting up, and daring to believe that your story still matters—even when it doesn’t look like a success story yet.

Not the End. Just a Detour is a raw, honest, and healing journey for anyone who’s ever been left behind, passed over, ghosted, let go, or simply lost in the fog of “What now?”

This is for:

• The dreamer who did everything right and still got a “no.”
• The survivor whose résumé is a patchwork quilt of layoffs, pivots, and grace.
• The hopeful soul quietly grieving a life they thought would look different by now.
• The person who is rebuilding in silence—and wondering if it still counts.

Across 78 emotionally resonant chapters, Alex doesn’t give you a ten-step plan to turn your life around. He invites you to sit in the middle of it. The awkward middle. The confusing middle. The beautifully sacred, often silent, deeply human middle.

Because real transformation doesn’t happen at the applause.
It happens in the pause.

You’ll read about:

• What it feels like to not be picked—and how to pick yourself anyway.
• How to let go, not of hope, but of control.
• The quiet courage of continuing when the road doesn’t rise to meet you.
• Finding purpose, peace, and joy—not after success, but in the very moment you thought you were too late.

Through witty storytelling, vulnerable truth-telling, and deeply relatable reflections, Alex reframes rejection, comparison, burnout, and career detours as sacred invitations—not signs of failure.

This is not the end of your story. It’s the moment you begin to write it differently.

You’ll learn how to:

• Let go of timelines that were never yours.
• Stop measuring your worth by someone else’s tape.
• Honor your detour instead of editing it.
• Redefine progress, success, and identity on your own terms.

And most importantly—you’ll be reminded that you are not behind. You are not broken. You are not a lost cause.

You’re becoming.

This is the book you give to yourself—or someone you love—when life didn’t go as planned, and you need more than empty encouragement. You need real hope. Messy, honest, powerful hope that meets you in the waiting room, sits with you in the silence, and whispers, You’re still in it. And that matters.

It’s not the polished version of healing.
It’s the true one.
And maybe—just maybe—that’s the one we need most.

You were never meant to hustle your way to holiness.
You were never asked to curate your calling for social media.
And you don’t have to keep pretending that your highlight reel is your healing.

This is your invitation to stop performing and start becoming.

In Unfollow Fear. Follow God, author and faith-writer Alex offers a raw, heartfelt r

You were never meant to hustle your way to holiness.
You were never asked to curate your calling for social media.
And you don’t have to keep pretending that your highlight reel is your healing.

This is your invitation to stop performing and start becoming.

In Unfollow Fear. Follow God, author and faith-writer Alex offers a raw, heartfelt reset for those caught in the exhausting loop of measuring their worth by timelines, titles, likes, or labels. Through 76 honest, funny, and faith-deepening chapters, Alex unpacks what it really looks like to follow Jesus in a world where comparison is currency and spiritual burnout is often disguised as “just being busy.”

Each chapter reads like a conversation with a friend who’s walked through doubt, delay, disappointment—and still dares to believe in God’s goodness. From crying in the church parking lot to whispering “amen” through clenched teeth, Alex doesn’t hand out easy answers. He offers something better: honesty, grace, and permission to heal without hiding.

You’ll find chapters like:

• I Thought Healing Would Be Faster
• They Got Married. I Got Mismatched at Bible Study Again
• I Don’t Want to Impress People. I Want to Know God
• Faith Isn’t Just a Feeling. Thank God
• My Friends Are Thriving. I’m Still Tithing in Tears
• I Quit Performing. I Started Living

Whether you’re spiritually exhausted, quietly discouraged, or just trying to pray without sounding fake, this book is for you.

Not the polished version of you.

The real you.

The one who still shows up—even when the worship songs don’t hit and the group text goes quiet. The one who wonders if God is still listening. The one who’s ready to stop scrolling and start healing.

If you’ve ever asked, “Am I the only one who feels behind in their faith?” — this book will gently whisper back: You’re not behind. You’re becoming.

A book for anyone who ever opened a rejection email and whispered, “Cool. I didn’t want it anyway.”

What do you do when your five-year plan expires, your motivation ghosts you, and your résumé starts to feel like an emotional liability?

You write about it.

404: Motivation Not Found is the hilariously raw and surprisingly hopeful story of wha

A book for anyone who ever opened a rejection email and whispered, “Cool. I didn’t want it anyway.”

What do you do when your five-year plan expires, your motivation ghosts you, and your résumé starts to feel like an emotional liability?

You write about it.

404: Motivation Not Found is the hilariously raw and surprisingly hopeful story of what happens after life stops making sense—and before it starts making sense again. Told in 77 sharply titled, painfully relatable, and laugh-out-loud chapters, this is not a guidebook. It’s a survival log. A love letter to the lost. A group chat in book form for everyone who’s ever felt behind, broken, too old to be figuring it out, or too tired to keep pretending they're fine.

In these pages, you’ll meet someone who tries journaling (his pen runs out of ink mid-crisis), matches with his ex on a job app, rebrands his quarter-life crisis as a "soft reset," and eventually deletes LinkedIn—only to reinstall it out of panic. He burns out quietly, networks awkwardly, cries deluxe showers with conditioner, fakes confidence at weddings, and applies for jobs that require a DNA sample. Through it all, he somehow keeps going. And laughing. And becoming.

If you’ve ever:

• Taken a self-care day that turned into a self-doubt month
• Written a cover letter that accidentally became a memoir
• Thought “this is my year” for the third year in a row
• Or told your plant all your problems because therapy was booked out

Then this book is for you.

You’ll find no hustle culture sermons here. No empty affirmations or toxic positivity. Just the messy middle of becoming—told with humor, heart, and the quiet bravery it takes to keep going without a clear next step.

404: Motivation Not Found is for job seekers, late bloomers, identity shifters, dream mourners, hope rebuilders, and anyone still trying to figure out what “success” means when the traditional definitions stopped working.

Not all progress is linear.
Not all healing is pretty.
And not all motivation shows up on time.

But the story’s not over.
It never was.
And maybe that’s the whole point.

 Not all survival stories are loud.

Some begin in silence — the kind you carry to work, to dinner, to bed, hoping no one notices the weight in your eyes. Tired. Tested. Unbroken. is a raw, vulnerable, and quietly triumphant memoir about what it means to keep going when the world expects you to disappear.

Told with gut-punch honesty and poet

 Not all survival stories are loud.

Some begin in silence — the kind you carry to work, to dinner, to bed, hoping no one notices the weight in your eyes. Tired. Tested. Unbroken. is a raw, vulnerable, and quietly triumphant memoir about what it means to keep going when the world expects you to disappear.

Told with gut-punch honesty and poetic clarity, this book follows Alex — a Chicago kid who grew up thinking strength meant silence. From childhood moments spent learning how to listen more than speak, to college dreams built on perfectionism and quiet panic, to the long, soul-fraying season of post-grad unemployment and invisible burnout — Alex takes us on a journey through the kind of pain that doesn’t get headlines. The kind of grief you smile through.

Each chapter is a testimony to the power of persistence when nothing makes sense anymore. There are no miracle mornings or hustle hacks here — just stories. Real ones. About being overlooked, ghosted by jobs, forgotten by friends, and still whispering, “I’m trying.”

This book is for:

• The strong ones who never get asked if they’re okay
   
• The job seekers whose inboxes echo with silence
   
• The ones who break quietly, love deeply, and rebuild slowly
   
• The people who smile through pain so others don’t worry
   
• The tired hearts carrying more than they can name
   

If you’ve ever laid on the floor after another rejection and thought, “Why does it feel like I’m disappearing?” — this book sees you.

Through heartbreak, humor, resilience, and the kind of unspoken grief many carry but few name, Tired. Tested. Unbroken. reminds us that surviving isn’t weakness — it’s courage. And healing doesn’t always sound like triumph. Sometimes, it sounds like getting up anyway.

This is not a story of loud comebacks.
It’s a story of quiet endurance.
Of rebuilding.
Of becoming.

For anyone who’s ever whispered, “I don’t know how much longer I can do this,” — this book is your reminder:

You already are.

At some point in your career, you probably heard the phrase, “Our people are our greatest asset.” Alex did too. Right before they reassigned his work to an intern and canceled his 1:1s permanently. Welcome to the modern workplace — where “transparency” means strategic silence, “check-ins” mean surveillance, and HR’s version of help often 

At some point in your career, you probably heard the phrase, “Our people are our greatest asset.” Alex did too. Right before they reassigned his work to an intern and canceled his 1:1s permanently. Welcome to the modern workplace — where “transparency” means strategic silence, “check-ins” mean surveillance, and HR’s version of help often comes with a case number.

In this brutally honest and darkly hilarious memoir, Alex takes readers on a 78-chapter, first-person descent into the chaos of corporate life, where every badge swipe is a gamble and every Slack emoji feels like emotional Russian roulette. From the moment he signed an onboarding PDF with more pages than plot to the day he found his name crossed out on an org chart, this is a story of blind loyalty, forced positivity, and a very public unraveling disguised as “professional development.”

Along the way, you’ll witness:

• A benefits orientation that felt like a hostage negotiation with a sleep paralysis demon.
• A performance review that doubled as a gaslighting tutorial.
• A mentorship program that ended with ghosting and vague encouragement.
• The infamous wellness webinar that left him in tears… while the presenter smiled.
• Team-building exercises that required therapy, pizza, and divine intervention.
• The slow realization that burnout isn’t a personal failure — it’s a business model.

This isn’t just a book about getting laid off. It’s about everything that happens before, during, and after the layoff — the silence that follows a calendar invite labeled “Update,” the inbox full of “Thank you for your service” emails that treat layoffs like noble ceremonies, and the haunting moment when you wake up at 6AM out of sheer muscle memory… and have nowhere to be.

But beneath the sarcasm and HR-induced trauma is something more powerful: truth. The kind of truth we whisper to each other in bathroom stalls, DM threads, and “off the record” happy hours. The kind that says, “You’re not crazy. You’re just in a system that’s allergic to humanity.”

With biting humor and heartbreaking vulnerability, Alex doesn’t just chronicle corporate dysfunction — he exposes it. He turns awkward conversations, soul-sucking syncs, and spreadsheet ambushes into moments of shared catharsis. And by the time you reach the final chapter, you’ll feel less alone. More seen. Maybe even a little hopeful.

Because buried beneath the layoffs, burnout, and budget cuts is a rebellious truth: you are not your job. Your value isn’t measured in OKRs. And walking away from a toxic system isn’t quitting — it’s healing.

HR Said “Come Talk to Us.” My Badge Stopped Working is the love letter, survival guide, and emotional roast you didn’t know you needed. Perfect for anyone who’s ever smiled through a panic attack on Zoom, asked for feedback and got fired instead, or whispered “I’m too tired for this” into a reheated mug of coffee.

If you’ve ever been called “overqualified,” told to “stay positive,” or sent a meme instead of a raise — read this book.

It’s not just a story.

It’s your story too.

And this time, you’re not alone.

One unemployed human. One emotionally intelligent mouse. And a lot of cheese.

Alex didn’t plan to make a mouse his life coach.
But let’s be honest—he didn’t plan for much lately.

After getting laid off from his job, ghosted by three recruiters, and accidentally crying into a family-sized tub of hummus, Alex hit rock bottom. Or so he thought

One unemployed human. One emotionally intelligent mouse. And a lot of cheese.

Alex didn’t plan to make a mouse his life coach.
But let’s be honest—he didn’t plan for much lately.

After getting laid off from his job, ghosted by three recruiters, and accidentally crying into a family-sized tub of hummus, Alex hit rock bottom. Or so he thought.

Enter Brad.
A mouse.
A legend.
A cheese-stealing, crumb-leaving, nonverbal-but-suspiciously-wise roommate who arrived uninvited and never left.

What started as a rodent infestation turned into a full-blown friendship—and not the kind with Instagram reels and toxic positivity. No, this was the real deal: midnight kitchen talks, existential screaming, raccoon chases, duck confrontations, and a crash course in what it means to rebuild a life from the floor up. Literally. Because Brad prefers floor snacks.

Told over 79 absolutely unhinged and unexpectedly heartfelt chapters, The Wild Adventures of Alex and Brad the Mouse follows a human and his mouse companion as they navigate the weird, wonderful, and occasionally wine-soaked mess of adulthood.

Inside this book, you’ll find:

• A résumé written in crayons (and tears)
• A duck named Melanie who believes in revenge and breadcrumbs
• A startup called “Hire Me, Please” that goes viral for the wrong reasons
• Brad’s TED Talk on boundaries, squeaked entirely in silence
• One life-changing trip to therapy… that Brad snacks through
• An HR rep who accidentally books Alex for jury duty and a wellness seminar
• And the emotional climax? A farewell party with cheese boards, crying, and spontaneous dance circles.

But beyond the comedy, chaos, and questionable career advice, this is a story about friendship that arrives when you’re not ready, healing that doesn’t follow a five-step plan, and the weird, quiet ways love sneaks in through cracked windows and midnight granola bars.

This is a story for:

• Anyone who’s ever felt like a mess but still showed up.
• Anyone who’s ever applied to 87 jobs in one day and cried over a rejection that started with “Dear Applicant.”
• Anyone who has found themselves talking to a pet, a plant, or a very judgmental bag of shredded cheese.
• Anyone who’s trying to believe that maybe, just maybe, they’re not broken—just becoming.

🧀 “Heartwarming and hilarious—like a Pixar movie for burnt-out adults.”
🐭 “A buddy comedy for the chronically self-aware.”
🍷 “A gentle reminder that your weirdness is worthy. And also: hydrate.”

Warning: May inspire personal breakthroughs, spontaneous laughter, emotional closure, and an unexpected craving for Colby Jack.

So if you’ve ever felt too weird, too tired, too unemployed, or too emotional to be the “main character”—this story says: same.

You don’t need to be perfect. You just need a little cheese, a little courage, and one ride-or-die mouse named Brad.

 What do you do when your life plan collapses — in Chicago — during a snowstorm — while you’re holding a severance letter and a coupon for 20% off LinkedIn Premium?

You buy a one-way ticket to Mexico City.

This is the story of what happened next.

Told in 76 laugh-out-loud, painfully relatable, and quietly soul-restoring chapters, My Spanish 

 What do you do when your life plan collapses — in Chicago — during a snowstorm — while you’re holding a severance letter and a coupon for 20% off LinkedIn Premium?

You buy a one-way ticket to Mexico City.

This is the story of what happened next.

Told in 76 laugh-out-loud, painfully relatable, and quietly soul-restoring chapters, My Spanish Got Better. So Did My Spanglish Trauma follows one man’s ridiculous, beautiful, humbling journey from burnout to belonging — one misunderstood sentence at a time.

It’s about leaving behind the freezing gray skies of a career that never quite loved you back, and landing in a city where the street food heals you faster than your therapist ever could (no offense, Karen). It’s about learning Spanish by accident, trusting strangers who invite you to salsa class, and realizing that healing doesn’t have to be fluent — it just has to be real.

Inside this book, you’ll find:

• A passive-aggressive goodbye note to a Chicago landlord
• A résumé that accidentally includes a thirst trap
• A job interview interrupted by a rooster
• A pop-up market that felt like divine intervention
• A mom who says, “You sound like you again,” and means it

This isn’t the polished “Eat, Pray, Love” version of starting over. It’s “Cry, Sweat, Google Translate.” It’s messing up verb conjugations while searching for purpose. It’s calling your mom after months of pretending to be okay — and finally not having to pretend. It’s joining a co-working space where no one works, but everyone somehow makes you feel less alone.

It's about job rejection emails that sting, tamales that heal, and a slow, stubborn return to yourself.

If you’ve ever:

• Been called “overqualified” while your fridge contained four sauces and no food
• Wondered if burnout was just ambition with no boundaries
• Thought about moving abroad just to remember how to breathe
• Felt seen by a street dog, a mariachi band, or a churro vendor named Miguel
• Tried to explain your résumé to a recruiter while having an identity crisis in two languages

This book is for you.

My Spanish Got Better. So Did My Spanglish Trauma is a hilarious and heartfelt reminder that the path to healing is rarely linear. Sometimes it zigzags through street parades, awkward salsa nights, Wi-Fi dead zones, and unexpected grace.

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You might book a trip.

And by the end, you’ll remember that finding yourself isn’t about arriving somewhere perfect — it’s about becoming someone honest.

Even if that someone still doesn’t know the past tense of “ser.”

 A brutally honest, unexpectedly funny memoir about surviving school, failing forward, and laughing through the heartbreak of modern “success.”

What happens when you do everything “right” and still end up unemployed, exhausted, and over it?

Alex was the kid who followed the plan. Go to Hinsdale Central High School, get the grades. Transfer 

 A brutally honest, unexpectedly funny memoir about surviving school, failing forward, and laughing through the heartbreak of modern “success.”

What happens when you do everything “right” and still end up unemployed, exhausted, and over it?

Alex was the kid who followed the plan. Go to Hinsdale Central High School, get the grades. Transfer to College of DuPage, get the credits. Land at the University of Illinois, get the degree. He wore the cap, turned the tassel, took the photo, and applied to jobs like it was a full-time gig — because it was.

And then?

Silence.

Not just any silence. The kind that hums in your brain at 3AM when you're questioning your life choices and wondering if “professional burnout” is a valid resume bullet point. The kind of silence that follows “We’ve decided to go in a different direction,” or, worse — no response at all.

This isn’t just a memoir. It’s a survival guide for anyone who’s ever:

• Risked their life driving through a snowstorm for a canceled quiz
• Printed out 47 résumés for a career fair and got a squishy stress ball in return
• Accidentally called a professor “Mom” during an 8am class (and survived)
• Put their graduation cap on their dog because at least he looked accomplished
• Googled “What is culture fit?” and still failed the vibe check
• Been ghosted by a company they didn’t even want

Told in 80 short, hilarious, and deeply vulnerable chapters, I Spent $80K to Be Told I’m ‘Not a Culture Fit’ is a coming-of-age story set in the absurd trenches of higher education and early adulthood. It follows Alex’s journey from earnest student to disillusioned graduate to... well, something softer, wiser, and a little bit stronger than he ever thought he’d become.

It’s about learning that:

• A B+ can feel like a standing ovation after years of academic beatdowns
• Networking events aren’t built for introverts with anxiety and a low deodorant threshold
• Success isn’t linear — it’s a plate of spilled cafeteria nachos you learn to laugh about later
• Worth isn’t proven through cover letters, it’s lived through resilience
• Self-worth is a better investment than any textbook you bought and never opened

Through heartbreak, humor, vending machine therapy, and the occasional Zoom disaster, Alex begins to see that maybe the system was never built to hold all of us — especially the weird, the wonderful, the soft-spoken, the bold, the awkward, and the ones still figuring it all out.

And maybe — just maybe — that’s okay.

Because this book isn’t about ending up in the perfect job. It’s about becoming the kind of person who can survive the chaos, laugh through the rejection, and still believe in the value of their own story. Even when recruiters don’t reply. Even when friends are “thrilled to announce” on LinkedIn while you’re eating cereal in yesterday’s sweatshirt.

If you’ve ever:

• Graduated into a vibe shift
• Been told you're “too experienced,” “too green,” or “not the right fit”
• Stared at your student loans and whispered, “For what?”
• Wondered if you were the only one failing at “adulthood”
  Then this book is for you.

Heartbreaking and hilarious. Raw and redeeming. This is the book you give your recent grad, your unemployed friend, or the part of yourself that still believes healing and humor can exist in the same sentence.

Welcome to the story of what happens after the diploma — and why it’s still worth showing up.
Spoiler: You’re not a culture fit. You’re a culture upgrade.

A Book of Unapologetic Truths, Hidden Strength, and the Quiet Power of Speaking Up

You won’t find neat endings here. No perfectly resolved chapters wrapped in bows. No motivational slogans pretending to be healing. Instead, you’ll find something far more honest:

Real stories.
Real scars.
Real people.
Still here. Still becoming.

Whispers of R

A Book of Unapologetic Truths, Hidden Strength, and the Quiet Power of Speaking Up

You won’t find neat endings here. No perfectly resolved chapters wrapped in bows. No motivational slogans pretending to be healing. Instead, you’ll find something far more honest:

Real stories.
Real scars.
Real people.
Still here. Still becoming.

Whispers of Resilience is a breathtakingly raw, emotionally layered collection of 80+ chapters that speak softly — and hit hard. Every story in this book was crafted to say what too many of us keep buried: the quiet griefs, the invisible victories, the strength it takes just to make it through the day when you feel anything but strong.

These are not stories you’ve seen quoted on coffee mugs. These are the stories whispered in hospital parking lots, told through tear-soaked voicemails never sent, scribbled into journals late at night, or carried in the hearts of people who never got the chance to say them out loud — until now.

Inside these pages, you’ll walk alongside:

• A woman who smiled at work the day after burying her child.
• A man who kept his addiction recovery a secret, afraid even his healing would be judged.
• A daughter who became the caretaker, never asked if she was okay.
• A survivor who said “I’m fine” so many times, she started to forget what truth sounded like.
• A soul who finally said “no” — and didn’t apologize.
• A mother who found God again after walking away from the church.
• A young man who forgave his family… quietly, and for himself.

This is a book for anyone who has ever felt unseen in their pain and unfinished in their process. For those still healing in silence. For the people who love deeply, hurt quietly, and wonder if what they carry is valid simply because no one else has named it out loud.

And that’s exactly why this book exists.

Because someone had to say it:
You don’t have to be loud to be powerful.
You don’t have to be over it to be worthy.
You don’t have to share the highlight reel to have your story matter.

You matter. Even in the middle of the mess. Especially there.

Whispers of Resilience is more than a book — it’s a conversation you’ve been waiting to have. It’s a mirror for your strength, a refuge for your sorrow, a rallying cry for your quiet courage. It's the kind of book that holds your hand on the hardest days and reminds you, without fanfare or fuss:

You are not too much.
You are not too late.
You are not too broken to be loved.
And you are never, ever alone.

This is the book you give to the friend who hasn’t said much lately.
The sister who always shows up but never talks about herself.
The coworker who smiled through a funeral.
The version of you that once thought healing had to be hidden.

These are the stories nobody told — because we were too afraid, too tired, too ashamed.

But not anymore.

Let these whispers rise into something sacred.
Let them remind you that even when your voice shakes, your truth matters.
Let them show you what you’ve always been — not broken.

Becoming.

There are stories you read.
And there are stories that read you.

When the Soul Cries, Heaven Listens is the intimate, aching, and soul-restoring journey of Alicia — a South African woman born during a thunderstorm, raised in silence, and reborn in the kind of fire that doesn’t consume you… it clarifies you.

Told in 77 poetic, full-hearted c

There are stories you read.
And there are stories that read you.

When the Soul Cries, Heaven Listens is the intimate, aching, and soul-restoring journey of Alicia — a South African woman born during a thunderstorm, raised in silence, and reborn in the kind of fire that doesn’t consume you… it clarifies you.

Told in 77 poetic, full-hearted chapters that blend the storytelling power of memoir with the emotional depth of fiction, this novel follows Alicia from red dust floors and whispered prayers to city streets where dreams begin and hearts unravel.

This is a story of survival — but not the kind that ends at endurance.
It’s about the quiet ways we break, the invisible ways we heal, and the surprising ways God shows up in between. Alicia walks through poverty, loss, depression, betrayal, spiritual exile, and identity crises — and through it all, she listens. To the wind. To the silence. To the soul. To heaven.

Inside this book, you’ll meet:

• A young girl who prays to a God she can’t yet name
• A grieving sister whose first heartbreak isn’t romantic — it’s death
• A woman who moves to the city to be found, but first loses herself
• A leader who never thought she’d lead
• A mother who teaches her children what it means to rise, not just survive

Alicia’s voice is honest, lyrical, and unfiltered. She doesn’t hide the shame, the sleepless nights, the therapy sessions, the moments where faith felt like fiction. But she also doesn’t shy away from beauty — the small joys, the divine interruptions, the laughter in hospital waiting rooms, and the power of hearing someone say, “Me too.”

If you’ve ever cried alone, prayed without answers, or carried grief in your lungs like it was oxygen — this book is for you.

If you’ve ever felt unseen, unheard, unworthy — this book will remind you that heaven listened even when no one else did.

When the Soul Cries, Heaven Listens is more than a novel. It’s a conversation between scars and healing. Between sorrow and strength. Between earth and the God who still shows up in broken places.

And by the final page, you’ll believe this:
Your soul was never crying into a void.
It was always heard.
And maybe now, finally — you’ll start listening too.

 A Hilarious, Heartbreaking, and Unfiltered Survival Story from the Front Lines of the Algorithmic Job Hunt

In 2025, applying for a job isn’t just a task — it’s a full-time existential crisis.

Your résumé doesn’t just need to be polished. It needs to speak fluent algorithm. Your cover letter? Irrelevant. Unless it’s been optimized, sanitiz

 A Hilarious, Heartbreaking, and Unfiltered Survival Story from the Front Lines of the Algorithmic Job Hunt

In 2025, applying for a job isn’t just a task — it’s a full-time existential crisis.

Your résumé doesn’t just need to be polished. It needs to speak fluent algorithm. Your cover letter? Irrelevant. Unless it’s been optimized, sanitized, emotionally resonant, and also written in emojis.

Welcome to the job market of the future — where bots filter your résumé, avatars schedule your interviews, and your entire career is evaluated by an automated system that thinks your last name is spam.

Meet our unnamed narrator. Human. Experienced. Chronically hopeful. And increasingly unhinged.

Laid off and full of talent, they enter the modern job market only to be swallowed whole by the black hole of AI-driven rejection. From uploading résumés to receiving automated condolences, every chapter is a darkly hilarious window into what it's like to beg for work in a world that no longer reads past line one.

This is not your typical job-search advice book.
This is not a how-to guide.
This is a how-did-we-get-here?

Told across 75 punchy, poignant, and side-splitting chapters, each around 4 pages long, this book captures the essence of trying to stay sane, employed, and emotionally upright while being judged by software that can't tell the difference between a Senior Strategist and a dolphin trainer.

Chapter titles include:

• I Uploaded My Résumé. It Asked for a DNA Sample
• My Cover Letter Got a 62% Match. In What, I Don’t Know
• I Was Ranked #472 Out of 472 Applicants
• I Got the Job. Then the System Took It Back
• I Printed My Résumé and Left It in God’s Hands
• I Hired Myself. And I Showed Up Every Day

If you've ever stared at a rejection email that arrived five minutes after your application, questioned whether your career gap needs a therapist, or screamed into the void after an AI recruiter ghosted you, this book is for you.

And while it will absolutely make you laugh, it will also remind you of something you might’ve forgotten during this algorithmic rollercoaster: your worth is not determined by a keyword match.

This is a book for the overqualified and under-considered.
For the mid-career dreamers.
For the seasoned professionals who’ve been told they’re “too human.”
For anyone trying to stay hopeful in a hiring process designed by people who forgot what hope looks like.

You are not your rejection emails.
You are not too old, too weird, or too real.
You’re just early.

And in these pages? You’re seen.

A heartbreakingly hilarious, spiritually raw, and deeply relatable memoir about job loss, unexpected purpose, and the glitter-covered grace of showing up anyway.

If you’ve ever been laid off, ghosted by HR, or rejected by a company that misspelled your name in the auto-reply, this book is for you.

If you’ve ever prayed, “Lord, I just need a

A heartbreakingly hilarious, spiritually raw, and deeply relatable memoir about job loss, unexpected purpose, and the glitter-covered grace of showing up anyway.

If you’ve ever been laid off, ghosted by HR, or rejected by a company that misspelled your name in the auto-reply, this book is for you.

If you’ve ever prayed, “Lord, I just need a sign,” and then found yourself staring at a church bulletin that says “Must Enjoy Glitter”, this book is for you.

And if you’ve ever worn the same hoodie for three days straight while questioning your life’s worth between bowls of cereal and browser tabs titled “career pivot ideas” and “am I too old to join a commune?”—then welcome. You’re not alone.

Meet Alex.
He had a decent job, a polished résumé, and a solid handshake. But when the latest round of layoffs left him unemployed, exhausted, and spiritually threadbare, his plans unraveled faster than his LinkedIn premium trial. What began as a reluctant visit to church turned into an even more reluctant “yes” to a part-time role in Children’s Ministry—a position that required zero experience, maximum flexibility, and, apparently, a love of glitter.

What follows is a laugh-out-loud, cry-in-your-car, deeply moving journey through the unexpected wilderness of faith, unemployment, and accidental ministry.

From clapping off-beat during worship to being spiritually humbled by toddlers, Alex shares stories that are equal parts hilarious and holy:

• The job rejection that arrived mid-Zoom call.
• The friend who offered butterscotch and unexpectedly became a prophet.
• The glitter—so much glitter—it ended up in his hoodie, his bathtub, and possibly his soul.
• The preschooler who handed him a broken cracker and whispered, “Jesus likes sharing.”
• The sermon that slapped him in the feelings at exactly the wrong—and right—moment.

This isn’t a book about how to land your dream job. It’s not a how-to for spiritual success. There’s no 10-step strategy or branded worksheet here.

Instead, this is a survival guide for the in-between—for the liminal, messy middle between endings and beginnings. For the spiritually weary, the emotionally unemployed, the believers who are still trying to believe, and anyone who’s ever wondered if God sees them in the waiting.

Children’s Ministry Assistant. Part-Time. Must Enjoy Glitter is for:

• The person who’s unemployed but still hopeful (barely).
• The one who feels overqualified, underutilized, and just wants someone to notice.
• The spiritual wanderer who didn’t go looking for church—but found something sacred anyway.
• The tired, the faithful, the ones still whispering, “Lord, it’s me. Again.”

It’s about calling that doesn’t look like what you expected. Grace that shows up with crayons and crackers. Ministry that starts with a clipboard and a small, quiet yes.

So come as you are—hoodie, doubt, glitter, and all.

You won’t leave the same.
But you’ll laugh. You’ll cry.
And you’ll remember: even here, you are not forgotten.
Even here, there is purpose.
Even here, God is still working.

A funny, raw, and faith-filled memoir for anyone who's ever felt unemployed, unseen, or unqualified—but still deeply called.

What do you do when the job market ghosts you… but God won’t let you quit?

You laugh. You cry. You pray. You spiral. Then you write a book about it.

Welcome to Faith Over Frustration, a 75-chapter journey told in first

A funny, raw, and faith-filled memoir for anyone who's ever felt unemployed, unseen, or unqualified—but still deeply called.

What do you do when the job market ghosts you… but God won’t let you quit?

You laugh. You cry. You pray. You spiral. Then you write a book about it.

Welcome to Faith Over Frustration, a 75-chapter journey told in first-person by Anthony, a man whose career stalled but whose faith was just getting started. From childhood pews to adult panic attacks in church bathrooms, Anthony takes readers through every stage of spiritual and professional survival—armed with humor, hope, and the kind of honesty that only comes from rock bottom and a rejection email at 3:00 a.m.

This isn’t your average faith memoir. It’s part devotional, part comedy special, part therapy session whispered between you and God while wearing yesterday’s hoodie.

Inside, you’ll find stories like:

• “I Was Born Late and Loud” — how timing has always been… negotiable
• “Fasting for Clarity and Getting Confused (and Hungry)”
• “The Devil Is in the Hiring Algorithms”
• “Delivering Groceries While Waiting on Glory”
• “Faith Is the Résumé I Didn’t Know I Had”
• “God Didn’t Ghost Me—He Was Just Building Something”
• “I Got the Job. Then I Gave It to God”
• “Every Closed Door Was Mercy in Disguise”

Written in a voice that’s both relatable and reverent, Anthony explores what it means to trust God when nothing’s working, when doors aren’t opening, and when purpose feels like a punchline. Through seasons of joblessness, church community, heartbreak, side hustles, and deep soul searching, he invites readers to walk with him—from the bottom of his bank account to the top of his testimony.

You won’t find seven-step plans or polished Christian clichés here. What you will find is sacred chaos, laugh-out-loud honesty, and spiritual reminders that God doesn’t just meet us at the mountaintop. He sits with us in the messy middle.

Whether you’re job hunting, dream chasing, faith questioning, or just trying to make sense of this season, Faith Over Frustration is your invitation to pause, breathe, and remember:

You are not disqualified.
You are not behind.
You are not forgotten.
You are becoming.

This is the survival guide for your soul. A reminder that even in rejection, there is revelation. Even in silence, God is speaking. And even in the waiting, He is working.

Come for the laughs. Stay for the healing.
Leave reminded that the story’s not over—because grace still has chapters to write.From branded yoga mats to being publicly outed by a Coldplay jumbotron (yes, really), this former CEO recounts seventy moments of workplace chaos, scandal, and redemption with wit, cringe, and an uncomfortable amount of self-awareness. Each chapter is a standalone disaster: a crash course in bad leadership, corporate dysfunction, and what happens when your career becomes a punchline.

Inside, you’ll find:

• An intern who writes a better apology than the execs.
• HR teams waging psychological warfare via wellness bingo cards.
• A family intervention… about your email habits.
• And a bean bag that somehow becomes your replacement.

But beneath the memes, Slack meltdowns, and LinkedIn overshares, Sorry, That Wasn’t on Mute is also about something real: the cost of tying your worth to a job title. The absurdity of modern work culture. And the messy, hilarious journey of unbecoming everything you pretended to be—just to figure out who you really are.

For anyone who’s ever been ghosted by a job, side-eyed by HR, or emotionally supported by their dog through a team meeting—this one’s for you.

Because sometimes, losing your job is the best way to reclaim your life.

Welcome to the corporate downfall you didn’t know you needed. In this hilariously raw and wildly relatable satire, a mid-level executive stumbles into the C-suite by being the loudest voice in the room—then proceeds to set the entire org chart on fire with nothing but bravado, buzzwords, and a disastrously unmuted Zoom call.

From branded y

Welcome to the corporate downfall you didn’t know you needed. In this hilariously raw and wildly relatable satire, a mid-level executive stumbles into the C-suite by being the loudest voice in the room—then proceeds to set the entire org chart on fire with nothing but bravado, buzzwords, and a disastrously unmuted Zoom call.

From branded yoga mats to being publicly outed by a Coldplay jumbotron (yes, really), this former CEO recounts seventy moments of workplace chaos, scandal, and redemption with wit, cringe, and an uncomfortable amount of self-awareness. Each chapter is a standalone disaster: a crash course in bad leadership, corporate dysfunction, and what happens when your career becomes a punchline.

Inside, you’ll find:

• An intern who writes a better apology than the execs.
• HR teams waging psychological warfare via wellness bingo cards.
• A family intervention… about your email habits.
• And a bean bag that somehow becomes your replacement.

But beneath the memes, Slack meltdowns, and LinkedIn overshares, Sorry, That Wasn’t on Mute is also about something real: the cost of tying your worth to a job title. The absurdity of modern work culture. And the messy, hilarious journey of unbecoming everything you pretended to be—just to figure out who you really are.

For anyone who’s ever been ghosted by a job, side-eyed by HR, or emotionally supported by their dog through a team meeting—this one’s for you.

Because sometimes, losing your job is the best way to reclaim your life.

Welcome to the Dysfunction. We Saved You a Seat.

At some point, every job starts with a hopeful “Welcome to the family.” This book is about what happens after that — when the snacks disappear, the meetings multiply, and your employee badge becomes less of a symbol and more of a sentence.

We Are Family (Until Budget Cuts Say Otherwise) is a 

Welcome to the Dysfunction. We Saved You a Seat.

At some point, every job starts with a hopeful “Welcome to the family.” This book is about what happens after that — when the snacks disappear, the meetings multiply, and your employee badge becomes less of a symbol and more of a sentence.

We Are Family (Until Budget Cuts Say Otherwise) is a hilarious, heartbreakingly honest memoir-in-scenes about one employee’s slow descent into corporate madness, where PowerPoint is weaponized, managers vanish into Slack, and every “quick sync” is anything but.

Told in brutally funny, first-person snapshots, this book is for anyone who’s ever:

• Been “strategically realigned” out of a job
• Survived a Zoom icebreaker by blurting out a trauma
• Given 110% and been told their “energy could be perceived as intense”
• Had a laptop (named Janet) crash mid-performance review
• Believed in company values right up until the layoff email hit

These are the true stories behind the team-building exercises, motivational jargon, and awkward “camera-on” culture. You’ll meet Greg (the email ghost), Dave (the printer warlord), Cheryl from HR (who just wants you to access the wellness portal), and a narrator who just wants to survive one workweek without questioning reality.

It’s part satire, part survival guide, and entirely too relatable.

If you’ve ever been told to “bring your whole self to work” only to find out that self was “a bit much,” this is your book. If you’ve ever cried during a reorg, laughed during a layoff (panic counts), or worn your badge long after it stopped opening doors — you’re in the right place.

Welcome to the family.

Until budget cuts say otherwise.

 You updated your résumé. You spelled “synergy” right. You even wore a blazer to a phone interview. And still… they went with someone else.

Welcome back to the job market circus — where the rejection emails arrive at 3:07 a.m., the “casual coffee chats” are actually covert interrogations, and you now measure your self-worth in “application

 You updated your résumé. You spelled “synergy” right. You even wore a blazer to a phone interview. And still… they went with someone else.

Welcome back to the job market circus — where the rejection emails arrive at 3:07 a.m., the “casual coffee chats” are actually covert interrogations, and you now measure your self-worth in “applications per hour.” If you’re here, you’ve probably survived a few rounds of this already. Maybe even lost a little of your soul to the ATS gods. But you’re still applying. Still hoping. Still showing up — coffee in one hand, trauma in the other.

This isn’t a career advice book. This is a survival memoir disguised as comedy. Volume 2 picks up where the first left off — deeper in the chaos, wiser in the pain, and funnier in the breakdowns. It’s for the ones who’ve been ghosted by recruiters, rejected by robots, and told they’re both “overqualified” and “not strategic enough” in the same week.

Inside these pages, you’ll find:

• Cover letters that accidentally turned into therapy sessions
• Résumé rejections that hurt worse than high school heartbreak
• Networking calls that were really job interviews wearing skinny jeans
• Interviews where you said “synergy” unironically… and lost a piece of your soul
• LinkedIn bios that sounded like digital eulogies (and accidentally went viral)

Each chapter is a battle cry for every job seeker who’s ever felt invisible in a system that values buzzwords over being human. You’ll laugh. You’ll cringe. You’ll scream into the void. But most of all, you’ll feel seen.

Because while the job hunt might be broken, you’re not.

You’re still rewriting your story.
Still applying at 3 a.m.
Still believing — even after 74 rejections and one rogue Brenda.

And if you’re still here? You’ve already won.

Perfect for:

• Burnt-out job seekers with a sense of humor
• Fans of honest storytelling, LinkedIn satire, and emotional resilience
• Anyone who’s ever whispered “maybe this one’s the one” before hitting submit

Read it. Laugh at it. Cry into your cereal. Then keep going. Because the rejection might be automated — but your worth isn’t.

Welcome to the office. Please leave your sanity at the door.

Congratulations! You've just been promoted — not in real life, of course. But to the front row of the greatest corporate trainwreck ever documented by someone who once signed a $47,000 ping pong table expense and called it “culture.”

In this laugh-out-loud, dangerously relatable s

Welcome to the office. Please leave your sanity at the door.

Congratulations! You've just been promoted — not in real life, of course. But to the front row of the greatest corporate trainwreck ever documented by someone who once signed a $47,000 ping pong table expense and called it “culture.”

In this laugh-out-loud, dangerously relatable satire, you’ll meet our (reluctant) narrator: a mid-sized tech company CEO with big dreams, bad instincts, and an unfortunate talent for public scandal. It all starts with a hot mic moment during a company-wide Zoom — and spirals into full-blown corporate chaos faster than Legal can draft a denial.

What follows?

• HR vendettas.
• Rogue Slack channels.
• A rebrand during a reputation crisis.
• An “emotional support goat” named Jerry.
• A team-building trust fall that ended in medical leave.
• And 74 other catastrophes too bizarre for fiction (except they’re all here).

From spontaneous “wellness sabbaticals” to performance reviews disguised as poetry readings, this is not just a workplace comedy — it’s a survival guide for anyone who’s ever questioned a mission statement, cringed during an all-hands, or wondered if the coffee machine was judging them.

Told in brutally funny, emotionally raw first-person chapters, We Deeply Value Your Feedback (And Other Lies I Told HR) takes you behind the badge swipe and into the breakdown. It's a love letter to everyone who ever gave their best to a job that repaid them with burnout, bureaucracy, and branded stress balls.

If you’ve ever:

• Sent a risky Slack DM and prayed it wasn’t public...
• Attended a leadership retreat that ended in tears (yours)...
• Tried to quit, only to be promoted out of guilt...
• Or stared at your calendar and wondered, “What do I actually do here?”...

This book is for you.

 What happens when your ambition becomes automated, your soul is buffering, and your “quick sync” meeting just stole your lunch break?

This isn’t a self-help book. It’s not here to teach you productivity hacks or convince you to start a gratitude journal before your 7:00 a.m. standup. Instead, Turn Off AutoPlay on My Career, Please is a ra

 What happens when your ambition becomes automated, your soul is buffering, and your “quick sync” meeting just stole your lunch break?

This isn’t a self-help book. It’s not here to teach you productivity hacks or convince you to start a gratitude journal before your 7:00 a.m. standup. Instead, Turn Off AutoPlay on My Career, Please is a raw, hilarious, and painfully relatable memoir about modern burnout and the quiet unraveling that happens when your job slowly becomes your identity.

Told in 75 sharply observed, first-person chapters, this book is for anyone who’s ever:

• Rewritten an email 17 times just to sound “appropriately upbeat”
• Pretended to be busy on Slack while microwaving cold leftovers (again)
• Been “promoted” to more responsibility with absolutely zero raise
• Rebranded their LinkedIn out of desperation and shame
• Sat in a meeting and genuinely wondered what year it was, who they were, and why there were three different platforms for saying the same thing

From onboarding that feels more like waterboarding, to mission statements that could double as satire, to the existential crisis triggered by a single 7:02 a.m. Slack ping — this is the career narrative we’ve all lived, but rarely admit.

But beneath the biting humor lies something deeper: Turn Off AutoPlay is also a story about recovery. About waking up from the trance of overwork. About remembering who you were before the OKRs, the performance reviews, and the calendar that ate your personality. It’s about slowly reclaiming your voice, your time, your boundaries — and your breakfast.

Whether you’re burnt out, logged out, or just quietly Googling “how to fake enthusiasm in a meeting,” this book gets it. You’re not broken. You’re buffering. And you’re not alone.

It’s not a how-to guide. It’s a flashlight in the dark.

So pull up a chair (or stand during this chapter, if you need to), close the 19 tabs you’ve been emotionally ignoring, and join a fellow survivor in this brutally honest, weirdly hopeful, laugh-out-loud breakdown of what it means to finally turn off autoplay — and start writing your own script.

 What if your job hunt felt less like an endless pit of ghosting and rejection—and more like a swipe-right adventure?

Welcome to Swipe Right on My Résumé: Job Hunting as Modern Dating, a laugh-out-loud, soul-poking, and brutally relatable guide to the modern job search. In this book, author Alex Pyatkovsky flips the script on everything we

 What if your job hunt felt less like an endless pit of ghosting and rejection—and more like a swipe-right adventure?

Welcome to Swipe Right on My Résumé: Job Hunting as Modern Dating, a laugh-out-loud, soul-poking, and brutally relatable guide to the modern job search. In this book, author Alex Pyatkovsky flips the script on everything we thought we knew about finding work—and invites us to see it for what it really is: a dating game with fewer roses, more LinkedIn messages, and a whole lot of self-discovery.

In a world where companies “ghost” candidates after three interviews, hiring managers drop lines like, “We’ll keep your résumé on file,” and you’re left wondering if you overshared when you mentioned your love for office cats—job hunting can feel like dating’s awkward cousin. You craft the perfect profile (résumé), obsess over your first impression (cover letter), and anxiously wait by the phone (email). You try to look "authentically passionate" but not too desperate, experienced but also "hungry," confident but also humble—basically a humble-bragging unicorn.

Through raw stories, sharp humor, and confessions that feel like late-night texts to your best friend, Alex explores the universal struggles we all face: the heartbreak of the “almost” offer, the confusion of the ever-moving job requirements, and the self-doubt that creeps in at 2 a.m. when you wonder if your entire career has been one big karaoke performance you didn’t rehearse for.

But this isn’t just a book about job applications and interviews. It’s about resilience, reinvention, and choosing to show up again and again—even when every “We decided to move forward with other candidates” feels like another breakup text. It’s about laughing through the awkward networking events, the weird “culture fit” questions, and the endless scroll of jobs that somehow want 15 years of experience for an entry-level role.

Swipe Right on My Résumé is for anyone who’s felt the sting of being left on “read” by a recruiter, who’s secretly practiced their “Tell me about yourself” answer in the shower, or who’s wondered if maybe—just maybe—it’s time to ditch the entire system and start a goat farm in Montana.

Whether you’re an eternal optimist still crafting personalized thank-you emails, a seasoned veteran of corporate heartbreak, or someone rediscovering what you really want out of work and life, this book will make you laugh, nod in agreement, and maybe even shed a few tears of relief.

Because beyond the rejection emails and the forced small talk, there’s a quiet, stubborn hope that the right match is out there—an employer who will value you not just as a "resource," but as a whole, messy, brilliant human being.

So grab a coffee, curl up in your favorite chair, and swipe right on this book. Because your dream job might just be one chapter away—or at the very least, you’ll leave with your heart a little lighter and your spirit ready to try again.

 They told me to “just be myself” in the interview. So I was.
They hired someone else.

Welcome to the job market in the modern era — where résumés read like dating profiles, interviews feel like therapy sessions, and every rejection email chips away at your last shred of optimism. You Were Impressive… But Not Impressive Enough isn’t a care

 They told me to “just be myself” in the interview. So I was.
They hired someone else.

Welcome to the job market in the modern era — where résumés read like dating profiles, interviews feel like therapy sessions, and every rejection email chips away at your last shred of optimism. You Were Impressive… But Not Impressive Enough isn’t a career advice book. It’s a survival story — 75 chapters of painfully honest, hilariously human snapshots from one of the most confusing, humbling, and oddly transformative experiences we don’t talk about enough: trying to get hired when the world feels like it’s ghosting you in real-time.

This is for the people who scroll job boards like it’s a second job.
For the ones who rewrite their cover letters for hours just to get auto-rejected in twelve minutes.
For the “top candidates” who never hear back.
For anyone who’s ever cried into a wrinkled button-down or drafted an email with equal parts hope and trauma.

Inside this book, you’ll find zero productivity hacks.
What you’ll get instead is something far more comforting: the full, unfiltered truth. Told through short, punchy, emotionally-charged chapters — all in first-person narrative — this is the story of one man navigating the maze of modern unemployment, one ghosted application at a time.

You’ll meet an applicant who’s tried everything:

• Writing heartfelt thank-you notes that go unanswered
• Smiling through panel interviews with 7 expressionless rectangles on Zoom
• Enduring feedback like “you’re great, just not what we’re looking for”
• Recording a TikTok video résumé (and immediately regretting it)
• Getting rejected on his birthday
• Rage-applying to 14 jobs at 3 a.m. while eating Pop-Tarts and manifesting
• And learning — slowly, painfully, beautifully — that he is more than a job title

But don’t mistake this book for doomscrolling in print.
Yes, it’s brutally honest.
But it’s also wildly funny, often tender, and unexpectedly hopeful.

Because at its core, You Were Impressive… But Not Impressive Enough is about more than just the job hunt. It’s about identity. Worth. Reinvention. It’s about what happens when your carefully constructed career collapses and you’re left staring at yourself in sweatpants wondering if ambition is a scam and if anyone ever really feels “passionate about Excel.”

Spoiler: they don’t.

Whether you’re between jobs, between breakdowns, or just deeply burned out — this book will meet you where you are. And it’ll make you laugh, cry, nod violently in agreement, and maybe, just maybe, feel a little less alone.

Because even if the recruiters don’t see it…

You’re still impressive.

And no rejection can take that away.

Ever feel like life is just one long string of “plot twists” no one warned you about? Like you’re starring in a coming-of-age movie that somehow never ends, where every “victory” scene is immediately followed by a pizza-stained meltdown on the living room floor?

Welcome to Spoiler Alert: It Gets Messier — a hilarious, heartfelt, and uncomf

Ever feel like life is just one long string of “plot twists” no one warned you about? Like you’re starring in a coming-of-age movie that somehow never ends, where every “victory” scene is immediately followed by a pizza-stained meltdown on the living room floor?

Welcome to Spoiler Alert: It Gets Messier — a hilarious, heartfelt, and uncomfortably relatable guide to the chaos we all secretly (or not so secretly) live in.

This book isn’t about becoming your “best self,” crushing your goals in thirty days, or achieving flawless morning routines involving kale smoothies and gratitude journals. This is about the days you eat cold pizza at 2 a.m., text your ex “just to see,” and stare at your career path like it’s a badly drawn treasure map in a cartoon.

Through funny, painfully honest essays and stories, Spoiler Alert: It Gets Messier celebrates the magic hidden inside the mayhem: the late-night crying sessions that somehow end in laughter, the dream jobs that ghost you (and teach you more than any conference ever could), and the small, silent wins no one claps for — but that matter the most.

It’s about the messy middle: the chapters we try to edit out before anyone reads them, the heartbreaks that push us to rebuild, the unexpected friendships that keep us afloat, and the constant learning (and unlearning) that defines real growth.

This book will make you laugh out loud on page one and then hit you in the heart by page five. It’s a love letter to the awkward, the uncertain, and the deeply human — to everyone who’s ever felt like they’re running late to their own life story.

Inside these pages, you’ll find permission to fail spectacularly, to start over (and over and over), and to find beauty in your most unfiltered, confetti-covered moments. You’ll remember that it’s okay to not have it all figured out — in fact, it’s better that way.

Because here’s the ultimate spoiler: life doesn’t get perfectly sorted and tied up in a neat bow. It gets better, yes — but then it gets even messier. And sometimes, the mess is the best part.

So grab a slice of pizza, kick off your shoes, and dive in. Your messiest, truest self is waiting — and it deserves a standing ovation.

 Step aside, self-help gurus and corporate ninjas — there’s a new master of power, loyalty, and office survival, and his name is Dwight Kurt Schrute III.

In Assistant to the Regional Manager: My Struggle for Power, the legendary beet farmer, nunchuck enthusiast, and volunteer sheriff’s deputy finally reveals his epic origin story and hard-

 Step aside, self-help gurus and corporate ninjas — there’s a new master of power, loyalty, and office survival, and his name is Dwight Kurt Schrute III.

In Assistant to the Regional Manager: My Struggle for Power, the legendary beet farmer, nunchuck enthusiast, and volunteer sheriff’s deputy finally reveals his epic origin story and hard-won strategies for conquering the modern office jungle. From his early days waging imaginary wars among the beet rows of Schrute Farms to his rise as the vigilant defender of Dunder Mifflin Scranton, Dwight shares the outrageous, beet-stained journey that transformed him into the unstoppable force we know today.

Discover how a child who preferred beet smoothies to milk and trained with nunchucks instead of crayons grew into the warrior who sees every coffee chat as a potential espionage trap and every HR memo as an enemy assault. Inside, you’ll find Dwight’s secret playbook: 77 chapters of unconventional wisdom covering topics like how to neutralize workplace enemies, build a farm that doubles as a paramilitary training facility, and win the heart of a judgmental cat enthusiast.

Fueled by raw beet juice, German war hymns, and an unshakeable belief in vigilance, Dwight’s story is more than a memoir — it’s a field manual for anyone who refuses to be ordinary. You’ll laugh, cringe, and possibly start building your own Megadesk.

If you’ve ever been underestimated, overlooked, or forced to participate in mandatory birthday parties, this book is your battle cry. Let Dwight show you that with enough discipline, strategic sabotage, and protein pellets, you too can rise above the swamp of mediocrity and claim your rightful place at the top of the corporate food chain.

Pick up Assistant to the Regional Manager and prepare to be transformed — or destroyed by a well-aimed beet. The choice is yours.

Are You Still Watching? (Yes, I’m Still Unemployed) is not your typical “how I landed my dream job” success story.

It’s a raw, hilarious, and painfully relatable journey through the corporate ghost towns, LinkedIn purgatories, and motivational poster betrayals that define modern job hunting — and the even bigger quest to find yourself unde

Are You Still Watching? (Yes, I’m Still Unemployed) is not your typical “how I landed my dream job” success story.

It’s a raw, hilarious, and painfully relatable journey through the corporate ghost towns, LinkedIn purgatories, and motivational poster betrayals that define modern job hunting — and the even bigger quest to find yourself underneath it all.

Meet Alex: a man who once applied for a job as a goat yoga instructor at 3 a.m., accidentally attended an interview in avocado pajama pants, and found his greatest mentor in a raccoon rummaging through his trash.

Along the way, he starts the Anti-Networking Club (because small talk is a crime), hosts an unemployment anniversary party with a Netflix “Are you still watching?” theme, and finally discovers that maybe the dream worth chasing isn’t out there at all — it’s been inside him (and buried under pizza rolls) the whole time.

This is a love letter to anyone who’s ever felt lost, ghosted, overqualified, underappreciated, or just plain stuck on life’s endless buffering screen. It’s for those who’ve been told to “just vibe higher,” those who rage-cry at rejection emails, and those who still dare to dream even when no one is watching.

Through 75 laugh-out-loud chapters — each more unhinged and cathartic than the last — Alex invites you to embrace your glorious mess, let go of borrowed dreams, and write your own story (with or without raccoon mentors).

Funny. Honest. Unexpectedly hopeful.

If you've ever whispered "No" to yet another networking invite, debated selling invisible products to fund your avocado toast habit, or wondered if you’re the only one talking to motivational posters in the middle of the night — this book is for you.

It’s time to hit “continue watching” on your own life.

Welcome to the fluorescent-lit fever dream known as corporate life — where HR isn’t just about policies, but also emotional triage, breakroom confessions, and confetti cannon disasters.

In Love Letters from HR, Alex takes you on a hilariously raw, deeply relatable journey through 78 chaotic chapters of office life: from the existential dre

Welcome to the fluorescent-lit fever dream known as corporate life — where HR isn’t just about policies, but also emotional triage, breakroom confessions, and confetti cannon disasters.

In Love Letters from HR, Alex takes you on a hilariously raw, deeply relatable journey through 78 chaotic chapters of office life: from the existential dread of "mandatory fun" events to passive-aggressive fridge wars and interpretive dance workshops gone terribly wrong.

Meet Janet, the loyal succulent who witnesses every meltdown, and join Alex as he navigates bizarre birthday cards, donut forts, group chat mutinies, and all the weird, wonderful messiness that makes us human.

This is for anyone who has ever whispered "I could just run away and raise goats" during a budget meeting — or fantasized about hiding under a desk forever.

Laugh, cringe, and maybe even cry as you discover the ultimate unhinged love letter to work, life, and all the ridiculous moments in between.

 From Onboarding to Offboarding: A Journey Through HR’s Lens offers a raw, witty, and deeply human exploration of modern corporate life — as seen from the often misunderstood vantage point of Human Resources.

In this candid and immersive narrative, Alexander Pyatkovsky invites readers behind the polished conference room doors and into the 

 From Onboarding to Offboarding: A Journey Through HR’s Lens offers a raw, witty, and deeply human exploration of modern corporate life — as seen from the often misunderstood vantage point of Human Resources.

In this candid and immersive narrative, Alexander Pyatkovsky invites readers behind the polished conference room doors and into the break rooms where the true pulse of an organization beats. Through seventy-four insightful, funny, and poignant chapters, he chronicles the entire employee experience: from the anxious excitement of the welcome email and orientation icebreakers to the bittersweet final wave on an employee’s last day.

More than just a guide to workplace policies and performance reviews, this book captures the sacred and messy human moments that define our professional lives — the nervous first-day smiles, the awkward small talk by the water cooler, the email slip-ups that haunt us at 3 a.m., and the quiet resilience we build cup by cup in the break room.

At its core, From Onboarding to Offboarding is a love letter to the unsung heroes of HR and to every person who has ever questioned their belonging, wrestled with imposter syndrome, or measured their worth against KPIs and meeting invites. Pyatkovsky’s writing is both vulnerable and humorous, offering sharp observations on office culture while celebrating the quiet courage it takes to show up as our imperfect selves.

Whether you're a fresh-faced new hire, a mid-career wanderer questioning your path, a leader torn between spreadsheets and souls, or an HR professional carrying a hundred unspoken stories — this book will make you feel seen, understood, and less alone.

Come for the hilarious confessions and stay for the heartfelt reflections. You’ll never look at your office badge, your inbox, or your morning coffee the same way again.

If you’ve ever sent out a résumé and heard nothing back — or worse, got that dreaded, polite “Sorry, we went with another candidate” email — this book is for you.

“Sorry, We Went with Another Candidate” is not your typical career advice manual. It’s the hilarious, honest, and sometimes painfully relatable story of one man’s wild ride throu

If you’ve ever sent out a résumé and heard nothing back — or worse, got that dreaded, polite “Sorry, we went with another candidate” email — this book is for you.

“Sorry, We Went with Another Candidate” is not your typical career advice manual. It’s the hilarious, honest, and sometimes painfully relatable story of one man’s wild ride through the job search jungle.

Meet Alex — a professional spiraler, coffee enthusiast, and occasional CEO-caller-“Dad” — who’s been ghosted by recruiters more times than he can count, battled inbox refresh marathons, and learned to laugh at the chaos of finding work in a world that sometimes feels like it’s designed to break your spirit.

Across 75 chapters filled with witty confessions, awkward encounters, and unexpected moments of hope, Alex shares the truth about what it really means to be looking for a job in today’s world — the fears, the failures, the tiny victories, and the ridiculous detours along the way.

Whether you’re just starting your job search, stuck in the endless loop of applications and rejections, or finally on the other side wondering how you survived it all, this book will make you feel seen, understood, and maybe even a little less alone.

Get ready to laugh, cry, and cheer as you follow Alex’s journey from desperate applicant to someone who finally finds their place — not just in a job, but in themselves.

Because in the end, it’s not about the job title. It’s about the becoming.

Surprise! You’re in the Sequel is a hilariously honest, deeply relatable love letter to every human who’s ever thought they finally had life “figured out,” only to discover a new plot twist waiting around the corner.

In this collection of wildly funny, sneakily profound essays and confessions, Alexander Pyatkovsky invites you to embrace th

Surprise! You’re in the Sequel is a hilariously honest, deeply relatable love letter to every human who’s ever thought they finally had life “figured out,” only to discover a new plot twist waiting around the corner.

In this collection of wildly funny, sneakily profound essays and confessions, Alexander Pyatkovsky invites you to embrace the messy, unpredictable, and beautifully unfinished nature of your own story.

Remember that time you planned a new life chapter with color-coded calendars and self-help mantras — only to find yourself eating cold pizza in bed at 2 a.m., wondering if your plants are judging you? Or the moment you thought you were the main character in a glowing coming-of-age arc, but life handed you a weird LinkedIn spiral and a random text from your ex instead?

Yeah. This book is for you.

With warmth, wit, and an uncanny ability to turn everyday embarrassments into epic plot points, Pyatkovsky reminds us that we’re all living in a sequel we never saw coming — one filled with surprise donuts, existential Tuesdays, gym memberships that haunt our bank accounts, and awkward grocery store reunions that force us to reckon with every version of ourselves.

Surprise! You’re in the Sequel isn’t a self-help guide with ten easy steps to a perfect life (spoiler: there’s no such thing). It’s an invitation to laugh at the chaos, celebrate the stumbles, and find freedom in knowing that you’re not alone — and you’re never truly “done.”

Because the real joy isn’t in finally arriving at some final “happily ever after.” It’s in realizing that as long as you’re alive, there’s always another unexpected, hilarious, heartbreakingly beautiful chapter waiting to be written.

So grab your favorite snack, put on your coziest hoodie, and buckle up. Because, surprise… you’re in the sequel. And it’s going to be your best story yet.

 When the world finally quiets down — after the endless meetings, the bills, the rejection emails, the forced smiles — there’s a sacred hour that belongs to no one but you and God. It’s the hour when your coffee has gone cold, your mind is replaying every failure, and your heart is busy drafting apologies you’ll never send. This is the ho

 When the world finally quiets down — after the endless meetings, the bills, the rejection emails, the forced smiles — there’s a sacred hour that belongs to no one but you and God. It’s the hour when your coffee has gone cold, your mind is replaying every failure, and your heart is busy drafting apologies you’ll never send. This is the hour of Still Typing.

Still Typing: Prayers, Plot Twists, and Other Late-Night Conversations with God is not a book you simply read; it’s a book that reads you. It’s for the ones who wake up at 2:37 a.m. with a mind full of “what ifs” and “why nots,” who open a blank document hoping to make sense of the chaos inside. It’s for those who pray in half-sentences and sighs, who send messages into the void not knowing if God is still listening — or if He’s just as tired as we are.

This is the story of a man in his mid-forties, caught somewhere between what he thought life would be and what it actually is. He’s successful enough to fool most people, broken enough to keep fooling himself. He writes emails he’ll never send, drafts prayers he can’t finish, and keeps typing even when every word feels like a paper cut across an already bruised soul.

Yet in those late-night exchanges, something miraculous happens. Between the sarcastic eye rolls and the whispered confessions, he finds a strange new language with God — a language made of raw honesty, stubborn hope, and the audacity to believe there’s still a plot twist left for him. Each chapter is a candle flickering in a dark room, a blend of journal entry, love letter, and stand-up comedy set performed on a cosmic stage. The book is as likely to make you laugh as it is to break you open and remind you that grace often arrives dressed in sweatpants, carrying takeout.

Still Typing is for anyone who has ever felt too complicated to be loved by God, too sarcastic to be spiritual, too weary to keep trying — and yet, somehow, keeps showing up at the keyboard of life, fingers trembling, heart still willing to write the next line.

This is a story about prayers you’re scared to pray out loud. About plot twists that leave you reeling. About the divine replies that come when you least expect them — through a friend’s text at 3 a.m., through a song on the radio that feels like it was written just for you, through the quiet realization that maybe, just maybe, you were never typing alone.

Pull up a chair. Bring your doubts, your side-eye sarcasm, and your half-empty coffee mug. There’s room for you here. You might discover that in the silence between the words, God has been typing back all along.

What happens when your last paycheck clears, your coffee intake triples, and your sense of identity dissolves faster than yesterday’s cold brew?

Caffeinated, Unemployed, and Still Dreaming is a hilarious, brutally honest, and surprisingly hopeful memoir for anyone who has ever felt lost between job applications and endless cups of reheated

What happens when your last paycheck clears, your coffee intake triples, and your sense of identity dissolves faster than yesterday’s cold brew?

Caffeinated, Unemployed, and Still Dreaming is a hilarious, brutally honest, and surprisingly hopeful memoir for anyone who has ever felt lost between job applications and endless cups of reheated coffee.

Follow one self-deprecating dreamer through 70 chapters of job-hunting chaos: from rewriting résumés into Olympic-level fiction, to staging solo kitchen dance parties in confetti-strewn pajamas, to finding solace in shower monologues performed to an audience of shampoo bottles.

This isn’t just a story about losing (and maybe eventually finding) a job. It’s a story about discovering who you are when no one is watching — when there are no office birthday cakes, no Slack pings, and no neatly packaged "career updates" for your feed.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Confessions from a professional rejection email collector
   
• Accidental networking victories that lead to everyone else getting hired but you
   
• The agony and comedy of cold pizza lunches and tear-streaked vision boards
   
• The quiet, stubborn hope that refuses to die, even when you feel like giving up
   

Caffeinated, Unemployed, and Still Dreaming is for the ones who keep refreshing job boards at 3 a.m., for those who plot goat-herding escape plans they’ll never follow, and for the brave few who still believe in small, messy victories.

It’s a love letter to the weird moments no one celebrates, to the people who find magic in empty afternoons and the spark in a single good cup of coffee.

Because no matter what the world tells you, no matter how many times you’ve had to start over, there is still a dreamer inside you — and that is more than enough.

 Have you ever felt like you’re stuck in life’s waiting room, refreshing your email for that long-awaited “yes,” only to be met with silence? Have you ever sent up a desperate prayer that sounded more like a voicemail, wondering if anyone on the other side is actually listening?

1-800-HELLO-GOD: Calls from the Waiting Room of Life is a raw

 Have you ever felt like you’re stuck in life’s waiting room, refreshing your email for that long-awaited “yes,” only to be met with silence? Have you ever sent up a desperate prayer that sounded more like a voicemail, wondering if anyone on the other side is actually listening?

1-800-HELLO-GOD: Calls from the Waiting Room of Life is a raw, honest, and deeply funny companion for every soul caught in the in-between — that messy, uncomfortable space between where you are and where you thought you would be by now.

In these pages, you’ll find stories that feel like conversations with a friend who truly gets it — the friend who knows what it’s like to be ghosted by potential employers and by life itself. The friend who understands the sting of rejection emails, the awkward small talk at family gatherings, and the slow ache of unanswered prayers. And yet, this friend offers more than sympathy; he offers hope, laughter, and a gentle push to keep going.

Each chapter is framed as a call to God — raw, unfiltered, and often hilariously candid. You’ll meet someone who debates paying rent with “faith points,” who wonders if they should shrink their sparkle to fit in at the next job interview, who has a meltdown in the kitchen before realizing that God is right there in the crumbs and the chaos. You’ll walk alongside a narrator who checks LinkedIn and feels like the only one not “thrilled to announce” something new, who finds unexpected blessings in couch cushions and random Venmo surprises, who learns to trust in the silent spaces and find purpose in the pauses.

This is not a book filled with easy answers, manifesting mantras, or step-by-step life hacks. Instead, it offers permission — permission to laugh when everything falls apart, to cry when hope feels far away, to grieve closed doors, and to celebrate the small, unseen victories that no one claps for.

It is a book for the ones who have been told to “trust the process” but secretly want to throw the entire process out the window. For the job seekers, dream chasers, silent servers, quiet warriors, and those who secretly whisper “just one good thing today” into their morning coffee. For every person who wonders if they’re too much, not enough, or simply in the wrong story altogether.

Through it all, 1-800-HELLO-GOD reminds us that we are not forgotten. That God is not ignoring us or putting us on hold with cosmic elevator music. Instead, He is present in every waiting room moment, every meltdown, every surprise text of encouragement, and every slow, silent morning when you feel most alone.

If you’ve ever looked up at the ceiling and wondered, “God, are You even listening?” — this book is your reminder that He is not only listening but sitting beside you, whispering that you are loved, you are seen, and your story is far from over.

This is not just a book; it is a love letter to the weary and the hopeful, a call to keep showing up, and a gentle invitation to pick up the phone and discover that Heaven always picks up on the first ring.

Perfect for anyone in a season of waiting, searching, doubting, or rediscovering their faith — this book is your permission slip to breathe, laugh, cry, and believe that even the messiest chapters are leading somewhere beautiful.

Have you ever looked at your life and felt like a guest at your own party? As if you were moving through rooms you decorated for someone else, wearing clothes picked out by a voice that wasn’t really yours?

Have you ever felt the quiet ache of becoming so many versions of yourself for the world that you forgot the gentle, fiery, tender per

Have you ever looked at your life and felt like a guest at your own party? As if you were moving through rooms you decorated for someone else, wearing clothes picked out by a voice that wasn’t really yours?

Have you ever felt the quiet ache of becoming so many versions of yourself for the world that you forgot the gentle, fiery, tender person underneath it all?

In Unbecoming: The Beautiful Mess of Finding Home in Yourself, Alexander Pyatkovsky invites you into a raw, poetic, and deeply resonant journey back to yourself — not the self the world expects, but the one who has been waiting patiently beneath the noise, hoping you would finally come home.

Across 77 chapters, each like a tender confession or a letter from an old friend, Pyatkovsky explores the subtle, sacred process of unlearning and unraveling. It is not about fixing yourself or achieving the perfect life; it is about laying down the armor, stepping out of the performance, and gently peeling away the layers you put on to feel safe, accepted, or worthy.

You will walk alongside stories of rewriting résumés and discovering your worth beyond bullet points. You will cry at golden retriever commercials and find your tears are a doorway to parts of you you’ve neglected. You will taste the sweetness of a muffin celebrating a small, silent victory no one else knew about. You will dance alone in your kitchen, rediscovering the thrill of being alive in your own body.

This book is for anyone who has:

• Stayed up at night questioning their worth and direction
• Outgrown a life that once fit like a second skin but now feels suffocating
• Carried silent grief for versions of themselves they had to leave behind
• Felt like they were always performing, always proving, always falling short of an impossible standard

With luminous prose and deep, steady compassion, Unbecoming explores what it means to step away from the “shoulds” and timelines, to release the heavy scripts handed down by family, culture, and fear. It celebrates the courage it takes to sit with your own messiness and discover the quiet miracle hidden inside every unbecoming.

You will learn to forgive the past selves who tried so hard to keep you safe. You will learn to bless the detours and the heartbreaks that taught you softness. You will begin to see that the person you thought you needed to become was never as precious as the one who has been here all along.

This book is not a manual. It is not a roadmap with clear bullet points to “get better.” It is a companion for the long nights, the tender mornings, the mundane afternoons when you suddenly realize you’re more alive than you thought. It is for the moments when you decide to celebrate yourself quietly — with a muffin, a song, a gentle whisper into the mirror.

Unbecoming is a love letter to every person who has ever wondered if they are allowed to slow down, to change directions, to choose softness over survival. It is an invitation to become your own safest place, your own most loyal witness, your own greatest love story.

In these pages, you will not find a promise of perfection. You will find permission — to rest, to breathe, to try again, to leave the life that doesn’t fit, to open your hands and receive a life that feels like coming home.

One day, someone might ask what changed you. And you might say: It wasn’t one grand event. It was the slow, quiet process of unbecoming what I wasn’t and finally becoming who I am.

Come as you are.
Stay as long as you need.
Leave carrying a little more softness, a little more bravery, and a quiet, unshakeable knowing that the person you are becoming — and unbecoming — is the most beautiful journey of all.

Winning the Job Hunt After 50 is more than a career guide — it’s a love letter to resilience, a roadmap to reinvention, and a testament to the quiet power of starting again.

For anyone who has felt the sting of being labeled "overqualified" or "too experienced," this book is a courageous, compassionate companion through the often lonely, d

Winning the Job Hunt After 50 is more than a career guide — it’s a love letter to resilience, a roadmap to reinvention, and a testament to the quiet power of starting again.

For anyone who has felt the sting of being labeled "overqualified" or "too experienced," this book is a courageous, compassionate companion through the often lonely, daunting terrain of job searching later in life.

In a world obsessed with youth, speed, and novelty, those in their 50s and beyond often find themselves battling invisible assumptions. They are told, sometimes subtly and sometimes bluntly, that their best chapters are behind them. But what if the best was never about the title on your business card, the corner office, or the number of zeros in your paycheck? What if the best is about the quiet moments of courage, the unseen acts of mentorship, the scars that turned into wisdom, and the relentless choice to rise again?

Through deeply reflective chapters, honest anecdotes, and soulful encouragement, this book invites you to remember: you are not outdated — you are seasoned. You are not past your prime — you are the prime.

You will learn practical strategies for rewriting your résumé so it honors every chapter of your story, crafting a LinkedIn profile that sounds like your true voice, and facing interviews with a quiet confidence that can’t be faked. You’ll explore the art of telling your story beyond keywords and algorithms, and discover how to turn rejection into redirection rather than self-doubt.

But this book goes beyond tactics. It explores the inner journey — the mirror talks late at night, the silent prayers before clicking "apply," the fragile victories celebrated alone at the kitchen table. It’s about the 3 a.m. doubts and the unexpected sparks of hope. It’s about remembering that the most powerful leadership is not measured by metrics but by the lives you’ve touched and the trust you’ve built.

Whether you are returning to work after a hiatus, pivoting to a new industry, or seeking a role that finally aligns with who you are now, this book is your invitation to see yourself fully — beyond the job market’s expectations and into the truth of your value.

Here, you’ll find:

• Encouragement to keep moving forward when the world tries to make you invisible.
   
• Practical, soulful advice on presenting your experience as a superpower rather than a liability.
   
• Stories of others who have walked this road and emerged stronger, more alive, and more themselves than ever.
   
• Gentle reminders that your worth is not tied to a title or a salary but to the legacy of compassion and courage you leave behind.
   

Winning the Job Hunt After 50 is for the quiet warriors who show up anyway, who choose to keep learning, who believe that their story isn’t over — not by a long shot.

If you have ever felt unseen in a world that moves too fast to notice the steady, unwavering brilliance of someone who has lived, led, and loved deeply — this book is for you.

Take a breath. Pick up this book. And remember: You are still in the game. And your best chapters might be the ones you haven’t written yet.

 Unanswered Prayers: God, Can You Hear Me? is not just a book. It’s a gentle, soul-level invitation to slow down, exhale, and step into a quiet conversation with your own heart — and with God.

In a world that demands instant answers and celebrates certainty, Alexander Pyatkovsky offers something radically different: a tender embrace of the

 Unanswered Prayers: God, Can You Hear Me? is not just a book. It’s a gentle, soul-level invitation to slow down, exhale, and step into a quiet conversation with your own heart — and with God.

In a world that demands instant answers and celebrates certainty, Alexander Pyatkovsky offers something radically different: a tender embrace of the questions themselves. Each chapter unfolds like a whispered prayer in the middle of the night, a handwritten note slipped under heaven’s door, an echo that returns in ways we least expect.

Here you will find the raw, unfiltered moments of the faith journey — the long car rides where the road becomes a confessional booth, the birthday candles blown out with trembling hopes, the nights when the only prayer you can muster is a shaky "please." You will wander through quiet hospital hallways, find yourself in late-night kitchens holding mugs of tea like lifelines, and sit alone in the last pew of a silent church, daring to believe you are still seen.

Rather than offering tidy solutions or easy answers, this book makes space for mystery, for doubt, for the unspoken grief that lives beneath our skin. Pyatkovsky’s writing does not shy away from the hard questions — it honors them. With poetic language and deeply personal reflections, he paints a portrait of a God who is not put off by our uncertainty, who meets us in the echoes, who sits beside us in the unanswered spaces.

Unanswered Prayers: God, Can You Hear Me? is a love letter to the ones who keep showing up. The ones who whisper “amen” even when they feel hollow inside. The ones who hold on to a quiet thread of hope when the world tells them to let go. The ones who find God in the slow drip of a coffee pot, in the hush of a midnight breeze, in the unexpected kindness of a stranger.

This book is an invitation to believe that your story — with all its incomplete prayers and quiet heartbreaks — is already sacred. It is a gentle reminder that your worth was never tied to how quickly your prayers are answered, but to the simple, stunning fact that you are loved beyond measure.

Through 75 tender, deeply human reflections, Pyatkovsky walks with you into the sacred hallway between what was and what is yet to come. He invites you to hold out your trembling hands, to lay down your heavy burdens, and to remember that even the longest waits are not empty — they are often where God does His deepest, most hidden work.

If you have ever felt alone in your faith, if you have ever questioned whether your quiet prayers mattered, if you have ever wondered if your tears were seen — this book was written for you.

Unanswered Prayers: God, Can You Hear Me? does not promise to fix your life. But it does promise to sit with you in the dark, to hold the lamp when you’re too tired to hold it yourself, and to whisper back the truth that has always been yours: you are not alone. You are loved. And even here, in the echo, God is closer than your next breath.

 Emily is eight years old. Her days are made of pancake breakfasts, sticky lunchbox notes, backyard forts, and bedtime fairy tales whispered in the dark. In her eyes, her mother is a queen with a red lipstick crown, her father a magician who turns simple sandwiches into armor, and home is a kingdom where love lives in every corner.

But whe

 Emily is eight years old. Her days are made of pancake breakfasts, sticky lunchbox notes, backyard forts, and bedtime fairy tales whispered in the dark. In her eyes, her mother is a queen with a red lipstick crown, her father a magician who turns simple sandwiches into armor, and home is a kingdom where love lives in every corner.

But when grown-up words like "layoff," "budget," and "overdue" start floating through the halls, Emily notices the cracks. She sees the too-long hugs, the empty chair at her recital, the phone that hums at the dinner table. While the world around her shifts, Emily keeps watch with a heart wide enough to hold it all.

Told in tender, luminous snapshots, Through the Eyes of Emily is a story of resilience and quiet heroism, seen through the pure, forgiving perspective of a child. It is a love letter to every parent who has whispered “I’m okay” when they weren’t, to every quiet act of courage no one saw, and to the unseen magic that holds families together.

This novel reminds us that children don’t need perfection — they need presence. They don’t remember the missed promotions or unpaid bills; they remember pancake Saturdays, kitchen dances, and bedtime kisses that smell like home.

For anyone who has ever felt like they were not enough, this story whispers back: you always were.

Heartbreaking, healing, and profoundly human, Through the Eyes of Emily invites readers to see the small, quiet moments that shape us — and to remember that love, above all, is the greatest magic of all.

This is not a book about jobs. It is a book about souls. About the grief of being ghosted, the heartbreak of unanswered follow-ups, and the quiet erosion of confidence that happens when your worth is measured by algorithms and automated rejections.

In a world obsessed with hustle and highlight reels, The Ones Who Stayed is a love letter to

This is not a book about jobs. It is a book about souls. About the grief of being ghosted, the heartbreak of unanswered follow-ups, and the quiet erosion of confidence that happens when your worth is measured by algorithms and automated rejections.

In a world obsessed with hustle and highlight reels, The Ones Who Stayed is a love letter to the unseen and underestimated. It is for those who keep rewriting résumés under late-night lamps, who send applications with whispered prayers, and who stay soft when the world demands they harden.

Alexander Pyatkovsky reveals the raw humanity beneath corporate life, inviting you to question the illusions that tell you your value lives in titles and metrics. This book is not a guide to landing a job. It is a companion for the brave — a reminder that your scars are proof of your courage and your softness is your greatest strength.

Every “no” you received was never proof of inadequacy, but a quiet redirection toward something truer. You are not late. You are exactly where you need to be.

The Ones Who Stayed is an anthem for those who keep going, who build when doors close, and who believe their story matters. Your story was never meant to be measured by its speed, but by its depth.

They let her go on a Tuesday.

No cake. No farewell speeches. No confetti or handshakes at the door. Just a quiet meeting labeled "Restructure Conversation," a polite set of corporate clichés, and a cardboard box waiting outside her office door.

After twenty-three years, Denise’s email was gone before she even reached the elevator. Her name 

They let her go on a Tuesday.

No cake. No farewell speeches. No confetti or handshakes at the door. Just a quiet meeting labeled "Restructure Conversation," a polite set of corporate clichés, and a cardboard box waiting outside her office door.

After twenty-three years, Denise’s email was gone before she even reached the elevator. Her name disappeared from the staff directory before she even turned onto the highway.

And yet — she was everywhere.

Denise wasn’t a director or an executive. She didn’t have a personal brand or a podcast or a corner office with a view. Instead, she had something rarer, something immeasurable: she had heart. She was the quiet center of gravity in a place that mistook efficiency for connection and numbers for worth.

She was the one who kept granola bars in her drawer for those who skipped breakfast. The one who sat with the new hire in the cafeteria on their first day so they wouldn’t feel invisible. The one who knew whose mother was sick, whose child had nightmares, whose confidence trembled beneath a crisp blazer.

She remembered every birthday.
She stayed late to fix things no one else even saw breaking.
She sang off-key on purpose so others would feel safe joining in.
She built trust, one fragile, human moment at a time.

Denise: The One You Feel on Every Day After is a sweeping, intimate, and deeply cinematic novel about the soul of a workplace — and what happens when that soul is quietly shown the door. Through 70 tender, immersive chapters, you will walk beside Denise on her final day, feel the weight of every quiet sacrifice she carried, and witness the echoes she leaves behind in each life she touched.

This is not just a story of one woman. It is a love letter to every "Denise" in our lives — the soft hearts who give without asking, who make others feel seen when they themselves go unseen, who hold the emotional fabric of families, teams, and communities together.

It is for the readers who have stayed late to help when no one asked.
For the ones who wrote the birthday card when everyone else forgot.
For the ones who sent the “just checking on you” texts late at night.
For anyone who has ever wondered: Does this really matter?

It matters.

Denise’s story reminds us that kindness is never wasted. That the truest legacies live not in LinkedIn headlines, but in the hallway laughs, the saved seats, the silent shields we build for one another.

What happens when the hallway applause fades? When your decades of devotion are reduced to a line in a farewell email? When the world no longer sees the light behind your eyes, only the lines on your face?

In Ageism Is Real: 70 Echoes From the Edges, Alexander Pyatkovsky pulls back the corporate curtains, the social masks, and the polished

What happens when the hallway applause fades? When your decades of devotion are reduced to a line in a farewell email? When the world no longer sees the light behind your eyes, only the lines on your face?

In Ageism Is Real: 70 Echoes From the Edges, Alexander Pyatkovsky pulls back the corporate curtains, the social masks, and the polished LinkedIn summaries to reveal something far more intimate — the quiet heroism and heartbreak of those society pushes to the sidelines.

This powerful collection of 70 short, cinematic stories captures the unseen moments in the lives of people who have given everything: the woman who trained three generations of managers but was escorted out with a cardboard box; the man who once led teams with fiery purpose, now finding his worth in daily morning walks; the grandmother whose soft wave steadied a new mother’s trembling heart.

Each echo is a reminder: age is not a deficit. It is a deep well of courage, humor, and humanity — a record of lessons learned, mistakes survived, love given and lost, dreams planted in quiet soil.

Pyatkovsky’s writing glows with reverence and rawness. He honors the overlooked moments that shape entire lifetimes, crafting each story as a cinematic snapshot: a trembling hand on a doorknob, a whispered goodbye at a cubicle, a sunrise watched alone after a final commute. In these echoes, we feel the sting of rejection, the ache of invisibility, and the fierce dignity that refuses to die.

Ageism Is Real is not just a collection of stories; it is a collective soul cry, a call to all of us to remember that our elders are not outdated — they are living archives of wisdom, resilience, and silent victories.

This book is for anyone who has ever felt the icy sting of being passed over, the quiet violence of polite dismissal, or the strange, hollow freedom of a “new chapter” they didn’t choose. It is also for those willing to look up from their screens, meet the eyes of someone older, and truly listen.

If you’ve ever wondered what happens after the "Thank you for your service" email, if you’ve ever feared what the mirror might say ten years from now, if you believe that humanity is stitched together by the hands of those who came before us — this book is for you.

Perfect for fans of Brené Brown’s vulnerability, Mitch Albom’s soul-deep storytelling, and Anne Lamott’s poetic truth-telling, Ageism Is Real: 70 Echoes From the Edges will break your heart, heal it, and send you into the world seeing every older face as a living story waiting to be honored.

Listen to the echoes. Carry them forward. And remember: you, too, are becoming an echo in someone else’s story.

 Behind every smile is a story. Behind every success, a silent struggle.

Humbled for Him is a collection of over 100 true, raw, and redemptive stories—testimonies from real people who lost everything... and found God. Business leaders, single parents, immigrants, veterans, and everyday people share what happened when pride, pain, pressure,

 Behind every smile is a story. Behind every success, a silent struggle.

Humbled for Him is a collection of over 100 true, raw, and redemptive stories—testimonies from real people who lost everything... and found God. Business leaders, single parents, immigrants, veterans, and everyday people share what happened when pride, pain, pressure, or success caused them to drift from faith—and how God met them in the middle of their mess.

From corporate offices to broken homes, from addiction to restoration, these stories echo one powerful truth:
God doesn’t waste pain. He redeems it.

Whether you’ve fallen, doubted, drifted, or are simply holding on by a thread, this book will meet you with honesty, hope, and holy reminders that your story isn’t over—and neither is God's plan for you.

This is more than a book.
It’s a mirror. A reminder. A return.

For the humbled.
For the healed.
For the ones still holding on.

She gave her life to her career. Then her career forgot her name.

Meet Rachel: 58 years old, experienced, and freshly laid off. She’s been called “a great mentor,” “seasoned,” and “solid” — which is often corporate code for “we’re not hiring someone old enough to remember dial-up.” Once a rising star in the workplace, Rachel climbed the la

She gave her life to her career. Then her career forgot her name.

Meet Rachel: 58 years old, experienced, and freshly laid off. She’s been called “a great mentor,” “seasoned,” and “solid” — which is often corporate code for “we’re not hiring someone old enough to remember dial-up.” Once a rising star in the workplace, Rachel climbed the ladder, held it steady for others, and reinforced every rung along the way. And now? She finds herself invisible to the very companies that once celebrated her loyalty.

In a world obsessed with TikTok energy and startup buzzwords, My Age is Not a Liability. Your Bias Is. is a raw, hilarious, and emotionally honest novel told through the eyes of a woman fighting back against a system that worships youth and quietly sidelines experience.

Spanning 80 bite-sized, binge-worthy chapters, Rachel’s story captures what it feels like to be overqualified and underestimated — to be told you “should be grateful,” while grieving the erosion of purpose and identity. Through moments both gut-wrenching and laugh-out-loud funny, readers walk with Rachel as she navigates rejection emails, generational bias, self-doubt, and the awkward dance of starting over in a job market designed to forget people like her.

This is not just a story of survival. It’s a story of reinvention.

Rachel doesn’t go quietly. She goes truthfully — clipboard in hand, blazer slightly wrinkled, and spirit undeterred. From childhood ambition to mid-career burnout, from internal promotions to external rejections, she narrates the unglamorous, relatable, and deeply human journey of what it means to keep dreaming — even after the world tells you your time has passed.

If you’ve ever been laid off and told “you’ll land on your feet,”
If you’ve ever been overlooked in favor of someone you trained,
If you’ve been called “intimidating” for speaking clearly,
If you’ve rewritten your résumé while questioning your worth,
If you’ve ever wondered if your best years were behind you — and refused to believe it...

This book is for you.

Because Rachel’s not done yet. And neither are you.

Grace didn’t lose her job.
She lost the version of herself who believed loyalty guaranteed security.

After 30 years of dedication, sacrifice, and showing up even on the hard days, Grace found herself in the waiting room of modern job hunting—where the applications are automated, the rejections are copy-pasted, and the silence is loud. But 

Grace didn’t lose her job.
She lost the version of herself who believed loyalty guaranteed security.

After 30 years of dedication, sacrifice, and showing up even on the hard days, Grace found herself in the waiting room of modern job hunting—where the applications are automated, the rejections are copy-pasted, and the silence is loud. But this isn’t a story about defeat. It’s about rediscovery.

Told with humor, heartbreak, and hope, The Resume Is Long Because the Story Is Epic is Grace’s unapologetically honest journey through the chaos of career reinvention after 50. Through one-sided interviews, resume edits at 2 a.m., and moments of both faith and fury, she begins to realize that her worth was never in her job title—it was in her story all along.

What starts as a comeback becomes a calling.
What felt like the end becomes a new beginning.

For fans of:

• Fiction that feels like your best friend telling you the truth
   
• Brave, funny heroines who’ve been through it and still show up
   
• Stories that validate your struggle and remind you it’s never too late
   

“She wasn’t behind. She was becoming.”
 

 What if the restart you’ve been dreading… is the beginning you actually needed?

At 62, John never expected to be jobless, overlooked, and learning what an ATS was from a college intern named Kyle. He also never expected to become one of the most quietly inspiring voices for anyone who's ever felt like they were “past their prime.”

Told wit

 What if the restart you’ve been dreading… is the beginning you actually needed?

At 62, John never expected to be jobless, overlooked, and learning what an ATS was from a college intern named Kyle. He also never expected to become one of the most quietly inspiring voices for anyone who's ever felt like they were “past their prime.”

Told with sharp wit, emotional honesty, and the kind of hard-won wisdom you can’t fake, 60+ and Still Downloading New Dreams is a first-person novel chronicling one man’s journey through decades of change — from his first job (which paid in sandwiches) to mastering Lotus 1-2-3, surviving Y2K, enduring corporate layoffs, losing his confidence (and once, the payroll file), and finally landing a job that didn’t just hire him… it saw him.

This isn’t just a story about a job search. It’s about identity, reinvention, grief, laughter, late-blooming purpose, and the quiet hope that whispers: you’re not too late — you’re just getting started.

Perfect for fans of:

• Fredrik Backman’s warmhearted storytelling
   
• “A Man Called Ove” meets LinkedIn realism
   
• Readers navigating career transitions, ageism, layoffs, and second (or third) acts
   
• Anyone who’s ever cried in a grocery store near the balloons and kept going anyway
   

Across 80 beautifully crafted chapters, John’s voice is both vulnerable and victorious. You'll root for him, laugh with him, ache beside him — and by the end, you might even believe in your own comeback too.

If you’ve ever felt like your best days were behind you… this book was written to prove they’re not.