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Careering by Daisy Buchanan

A wry, caustic look at how your dream job can turn into a nightmare and eat you alive, even though you give it everything you've got.

A wry, caustic look at how your dream job can turn into a nightmare and eat you alive, even though you give it everything you've got. Set in the magazine world, though it could just as easily be fashion, publishing, or even broadcasting, it tells the story of an intern trying to get a foot on the ladder, while living in a crummy flat in Croydon and working all hours, and her editor, whose own dreams are shattered after a lifetime's experience.

Funny, frank and very resonant with the struggles of Gen Z to make it in a competitive world, where the next intern is always cheaper.