Water Cooler Diaries: Women across America Share Their Day at Work | 
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Authors: Joni B. Cole, B.k. Rakhra
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 210324
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1600940099
Dewey Decimal Number: 920.72
EAN: 9781600940095
ASIN: 1600940099
Publication Date: February 25, 2008
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Product Description
What’s it really like to own the company...work from home...occupy cubicle-land? On March 27, 2007, over 500 women kept a diary of their workday-including drama and laugh-out-loud moments-for Water Cooler Diaries. Featuring 35 full-day accounts and hundreds of highlights, you’ll go behind the scenes with a hot new fashion designer, a McDonald’s manager, a trauma surgeon, a mechanic, a life coach, a boxing promoter. More well-known contributors include actress Angie Everhart, celebrity chef Sara Moulton, race-car driver Sara Fisher, and “Go Fug Yourself” blogger Heather Cocks, all inviting us to work a day in their shoes.
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WATER COOLER DIARIES: What Real Women Think (and Do) March 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work
I have been taking my time reading this book.
Why?
Because I am savoring every entry.
Water Cooler Diaries provides a sneak peek behind the private lives of women; What we do on a typical day and what we think.
The reader discovers that when the "typical working day" is explored in detail, there is humor, frustrations and a myriad of emotions that are evoked by exploring the inner thoughts women have throughout the day.
And in reading each woman's day diary entries, we look into the mirror and see a reflection of ourselves in the surgeon, the mechanic, the blogger, the mother, the janitor and so many more.
Well, okay... this reader didn't have that much in common with the sexy magician and her albino snake... but, boy haven't you ever wondered what it must be like to have a job like that? Never thought about the fact that she also has to clean up snake poop out of water bowls every morning.
There are 35 full day entries with hundreds of excerpts from women from all walks of life.
ENJOY!
Fantastic Book March 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is hard to put down!
- Laugh out loud moments is the truth.
- Amazed at those who were brave enough to be honest & wrote about their boss from 'he double-hockey-sticks'.
- Fascinated going behind the scenes of the 'not your everyday' type of jobs.
- Shocked some were sad by the end of their day, while they are on their road to success
- Cried & deeply touched by those who were going through very personal and hard times in their life (I still think of them)
- Then laughed again...
This book has such a variety of true everyday stories Great reading.
We Are Women...Hear Our Voice March 2, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
These women share their joys, worries, triumphs, fears, hopes and dreams...a day in their lives...from mundane to magnificent. It's a book you don't have to read from cover to cover in one sitting, but it's hard to put down once you start. And although it sounds hokey, I laughed, I cried and I related to every one of these women on some level.
I love this book! March 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
. . . and I'm not just saying that because I wrote the last chapter. (smile)
These witty and often moving diary entries from women of all walks of life offer a broad perspective of the triumphs, trials, stressors, struggles and small moments of joy that people everywhere are dealing with at any given time. The book's candid, inspirational accounts let us briefly walk a mile in someone else's shoes and remind us that, no matter what we're dealing with, we are not alone.
I got turned on to Joni B. Cole's day diary compilations when I hastily grabbed her previous book -- "This Day in the Life" -- in an airport bookstore as I was dashing to catch a four-hour flight. Once I opened it, I was hooked and couldn't put it down.
Like that book, "Water Cooler Diaries" is another fast, fun and delightfully voyeuristic read. It's an honor to be featured in it.
Fascinating! February 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is great! Every woman's story is fascinating. It's also loaded with hysterical excerpts from womens' lives. Full of insight, tenderness, comedy, and just plain truth.
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